PSYA02H3 Lecture 3: PSYA02 2017-2018 Lecture 3 - Personality
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Personality theories: aside from measuring personality, personality psychologists also attempt to describe and explain personality, they have created a number of theories to explain personality. Where do traits come from: psychological science also attempts to explain personality, other formal theories of personality, behaviorist theory, social-cognitive theory, psychoanalytic theory, humanistic theory. 3: if traits are so informed by genetics, we should be showing evidence of our personalities in infancy, temperament is a(cid:374) i(cid:374)fa(cid:374)t"s characteristic activity level, mood, attention span, and distractibility, i(cid:374)fa(cid:374)ts" te(cid:373)pera(cid:373)e(cid:374)ts are predicti(cid:448)e of their adult personalities! Trait: cultural approach: most research that has explored the big five has been conducted in. Weird cultures: western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic, are the big five universal, evidence is mixed. A problem is change of personality traits due to cultures" differe(cid:374)t la(cid:374)guage: the prevalence of personality traits does vary from culture to culture, so culture may play a role i(cid:374) deter(cid:373)i(cid:374)i(cid:374)g a(cid:374) i(cid:374)di(cid:448)idual"s personality.
