PSYB30H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Personality Psychology, Unconscious Mind, Psychopathology
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Personality psychology lecture 1 quality, often contrasted with attractiveness. Common way of thinking about personality (cid:498)good(cid:499) personality global. Energy liveliness person has a (cid:498)personality(cid:499) or (cid:498)a lot of personality(cid:499) When people haven"t taken any psychology courses, this is what they interpret as a good personality fun, outgoing, party animal. The scientific study of personality personality is much more complex and it isn"t seen as a global quality personality is more nuanced it is much more complex than being able to. Everyone has a working theory about how many types of people there are. Usually the categories that people are using to categorize people in. Things like the pig personality test are incorrect and not based on research put people in one group or the other but there are better personality tests out there. In the scientific study of psychology, the tests are better validated empirically. Organized >> you have traits and mechanisms that are not a collection of.
