PSYC 2740 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Nomothetic, Personality Psychology, Human Nature
3 Feb 2018
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Lecture 1 and chapter 1 intro to personality psychology. Ex. need to belong, capacity for love traits or mechanisms of personality that are typical for our species and posses by everyone or nearly everyone. Ex. nearly every human has language skills, which allows them to learn and use a language. All humans possess psychological mechanisms ex. the desire to live with others and belong to social groups. Ex: variation in need to belong (individual differences), men more physically aggressive than women (group difference) Individual differences: ways in which each person is like some other person (ex. some people like parties and some like to stay home) Studying differences among groups: people in one group may have certain personality features in common and these features make that group of people different from other groups. Ex. different cultures, age groups, political parties, men and women.
