PSYC 2740 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Nomothetic, Human Nature

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

Document Summary

Personality traits: are characteristics that describe ways in which people are different from each other. Traits describes the average tendency: mechanisms: (ie. the process of personality) inputs > decision making > outputs, enduring: traits are relatively stable over time. Selection describes the manner win which we choose situations to enter how we choose friends, hobbies . Evocation are the reactions we produce in others, often unintentionally physically large, voice quality . Manipulation are the ways in which we intentionally attempt to influence other someone who is anxious or frightened easily may try to influence there group to avoid scary movies or risky activities. Three levels of analyzing personality: human nature level like all others, individual & group di erence level like some others, individual uniqueness level like no others. Two approaches: nomothetic: recognized di erences between people & tends to use statistical methods, idiographic: research focusing on just one individual (more qualitative).