PSYC35H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Nomothetic, Multiple Dispatch, Mental Health
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The word stems from persona which is latin for mask. Common to think of personality as providing some kind of explanation for people"s behaviour. Isolation of situation, must take into consideration the social context and even the cultural context. Personality does not imply individual differences however, this is a common approach. In the early days, personality was not considered a separate area in psychology; instead it usually appeared as a topic of abnormal or social psych. Interest in the topic grew in the 20th century there are now a diversity of theoretical and methodological approaches to he field, wich has contributed to a number of themes and controversies. Personality became a central concern in buriness and a focus in psychopathology and psychiatry, sociology, education and social work, and in the mental hygiene movement as well as psychology very interdisciplinary. Before the 1920s, the term personality was used in the us first in religious and ethical writings.
