PSY 1102 Lecture Notes - Determinism, Shy People, Biopsychosocial Model

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: Najwa Haddad

Document Summary

Earn a point p. 553-572 (9th edition myers textbook: contemporary research on personality. Typical way we feel, think and behave. It disregards the role of situational and environmental factors. Traits are poor predictors of behaviours, behaviours are inconsistent, just because you know someones trait, doesn"t mean you know what they are going to do. You are somewhat correct and somewhat wrongaccording to him traits are a poor predictors of behaviours but they are good predictors if you are predicting on average, across similar situations and behaviours. Doesn"t explain how traits develop in the rst place: the behavioural perspective. Completely shaped and controlled by the environment. Undesirable or punishable, unlikely to repeat the behaviour. Personality is nothing more than a set of highly learned responses (behaviour: social cognitive perspective. Personality is the end result of a complex interaction between a number of different factors. Those factors are social and cognitive in nature. Much of what we do is learned.