PSYB30H3 Lecture : Lecture 21
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The other dimension is basic research vs. applied research. All of the sub-disciplines in psychology are organized in the same way. Personality offers unique position of a sort of knowledge broker. Mcadams & pals definition: personality is an individual"s unique variation of the general evolutionary design for human nature expressed as a developing pattern of dispositional traits, characteristic adaptations, and integrative life stories complexly and differentially situated in culture. core human nature that we all share and that is our evolutionary and genetic legacy ach of represents unique variation on basic psychological design. Conclude with general sense that personality is unique variation we show on universal design. Personality psychology can reduce to blue and green (earth example), if take vantage point that is far away for the many constructs everything can be reduced to two basic themes. agency and communion, two aspects characterize much of human nature.
