Psychology 2550A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Electrodermal Activity, Personality Psychology, Criterion Validity

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2550A/B
• Professor: David Vollick

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Formed in first few years of life. Many definition but no single meaning is accepted universally. An unique, dynamic, organization of unique characteristics of an individual that influences behaviour and responses to the environment of that person. One"s personality should: have continuity, consistency, stability (cid:523)somewhat changes but not really) Be organized (disorganization is a sign of disturbance) Influence how the individual relates to the social world. Behaviour that changes frequently really shows in personality disorders. Identifying consistent, stable, individual differences is an important goal. It makes it possible both to describe people and try to predict their future behaviour. Theory and levels of analysis in personality psychology (cid:498)early big picture theory(cid:499) Aristotle"s(cid:523) the brain is the seat of the rational mind and freud not scientifically testable. Benefit- all stimulated many different types of research. Personality psychology- are several, alternative theoretical approaches. To identify consistencies in the basic expressions of personality= stable.