PSYB30H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Sigmund Freud, Psychosexual Development, Personality Psychology
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Set of psychological traits and mechanisms within the individual. Influence the individual"s interactions with and adaptations to intrapsychic, physical, and social environment. Psychological traits: characteristics that describe ways in which ppl are different from e/o. Traits and mechanisms that are typical of our species. Example: desire to live with others and belong to social groups. Individual differences: ways in which each person is like some other ppl. Personality can also be observed by studying differences among groups. People in one group may have certain personality features that they have in common but differ them from other groups. Set of difference importantly researched between men and women. One goal of personality psychology understand why certain aspects of personality differ among groups. No two individuals have the same personalities. Nomothetic research: studying individuals as individual instances of general characteristics that are distributed in the population. Requires samples of subjects to conduct research.
