PSYA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Falsifiability, Extraversion And Introversion, Barnum Effect
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Personality - a relaively stable set of characterisics that inluences an individual"s behavior. Stability- the idea of personality is that it"s a stable concept. You"re personality sicks with you unil early in life ill late in life o o. List of evidence that with young children can see temperament (happy, need atenion) and see how they react and these temperament correlate well with adulthood. Idiographic: when we think of individuals and try to describe them as well as ourselves, we focus on the uniqueness or the individual bits. Nomotheic idea: atempt to measure people and then generalize what you ind out about their personaliies o o o. Based on numerical data obtained from large group. The aim of personality research is to o o. Social media tests aren"t accurate about an individual, they"re general that people can ind pieces of informaion that relate to them; this is the barnum efect.
