PSYB30H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Behavioural Genetics, Learned Helplessness, Nomothetic
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What is personality: word stems from persona , latin for mask , a fa ade we share with others. Personalities can co-exist: men/women gender roles and age-related factors that can account for differences in personality. Is personality basically consistent or stable over time, or is personality basically changeable over time: a certain structure of your personality is always the same, but different experiences changes certain aspects of your personality, maturity. Human nature: how are we like all others , traits and mechanisms of personality that are typical of our species and possessed by nearly everyone, 2. Individual and group differences: how are we like some others . Individual uniqueness: how we are like no others . Individual uniqueness refers to the fact that every individual has personal and unique qualities not shared by ay other person in the world. How a group presents a given trait.
