PSYC35H3 Lecture Notes - Normal Distribution, Jack Block
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Goal is to find the variables that cluster together. Idiographic approach ( focused on the individual) person centered the configuration of attributes within a single individual. Jack block interested in two broad dimensions ego control, ego resiliency. Ego control expresses and containment of impulses and behaviour, restraint of those impulses is what makes us different. Those who are high, tend to constrain, people low, tend to act out. some are restricted, some are not. Do you act on your impulses or do you restrain them. Ego resiliency the capacity we each have to alter our typical level of ego control. we differ in how much we can change our typical level of ego control. some can turn their ego control off, some cannot. E. g. high ego control during the work week, low ego control during the weekend. Undercontrolled low in ec and low in er, they act out and can"t change in different situations.
