PSY 3303 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Behaviorism, Pseudoscience, Copyright Collective
17 Jan 2016
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Lecture 2 introduction (part ii) (january 15, 2016) Development of personality slow changes in personality. Study of how people change from one situation to another. Personality is opposite it is how people do not change across situations it is how they stay the same: focused on the person. Grand theories (1930-1950s: theories about everything, examples: humanistic, behaviorism, psychoanalytic, grandiose, ambitious and simplistic. Measurement era (1950-1970s: self-reports were very important, examples: mmpi, army questionnaires, etc. Cronbach and meehl (1955): set basic criteria for validity and reliability (particularly: said that they don"t give enough information on people"s personalities, he believed personality field needed to be improved. Social psychology took over personality study until 1980-1990s. Critique and renewal (1970s-present): 1990s: people took mischel"s advice and adjusted the field (especially in 1990s) Called conceptual issues because they are debated. Hobbes: we are selfish/bad; we become civilized through culture: we are born more difficult and we eventually become social.
