PSYB30H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Growth Factor, Maladaptation, Thematic Apperception Test
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Personality is an individual"s unique variation on 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 (mcadams & pals 2006) Introduction (lecture 1: components of a scientific personality theory. Testable hypotheses: desiderata for a scientific personality theory. Prefer one that explains more than less. Can be wholly wrong yet still be generative, get ppl talking and debating, gathering data: the evolutionary process. Variation, inheritance, selection: products of the evolutionary process. Spandrels are by-products, are genetically near by an adaptation. Random effects, adaptly neutral: personality as a product of the evolutionary process. Two fundamental problems (hogan 1982): getting along (communion) You only win if other win, win tgt/ lose tgt. Live tgt or die alone: getting ahead (agency) If you win, someone else, outcome related to each other, sum of zero, zero sum problem .
