PSYB30H3 Lecture : Week 1
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Overview of week 1 lectures: part i. Scientific theories: part i i i. freud. The scientific study of the person: human evolution. We are products of the evolutionary process : gender, society, & culture. Personality psychology is the scientific study of the individual and individual differences. Goal of personality psych is to bring all the various aspects from the sub disciplines of psychology into a singular view of the individual. Personality is at the heart of the discipline; it relays the findings and theories from one subfield of psych to another. Personality traits/dispositions sketching the outline : general, internal, and comparative dispositions accounting for the consistencies we perceive or expect in behavior across situations and time. Continuity vs. change of traits over time. The various theories of personality can be understood as answering 3 separate questions about people. Each of these questions/levels speaks to the question of what is it we know when we know a person.
