PSYC 2740 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Grand Theory, Testability, Malala Yousafzai

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2740
• Professor: Stephen Lewis

Document Summary

What is personality: oprah: empowering, charismatic, richard ramirez: cocky, charlie sheen: manic, hostile, andrew solomon: somber, malala yousafzai: empathetic, courageous, resilient. How personality interacts with life events, situations, environments, and how it yields different outcomes or different behaviours people have. State vs trait: anxiety example: state vs trait, trait anxiety: tendency to respond with state anxiety in the anticipation of threats/dangers. State anxiety: unpleasant emotional arousal in face of threats/danger. 3 levels of analyzing personality: human nature level: like all others (apply to most people) Individual and group difference level: like some others. Individual uniqueness level: like no others (no two personalities are exactly the same) Individual uniqueness level 2 approaches: nomothetic: recognizes differences between people and tends to use statistical methods. Idiographic: research focusing on just one individual (more qualitative) i. e. case study. Intrapsychic: largely pertains to mental mechanisms of personality outside of consciousness (thoughts, feelings)