PSYC 3140 Lecture Notes - Neurosis, Hogwarts Staff, Cluster Analysis
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Final exam: 9am, 2hours, 100 questions, 50 questions from chapters 13,15, 17 and lecture on personality disorder, child disorders and interventions. 50 question from other lecture and chapters (not chapter 1, 2, 5) location at accolade west- acw- room 109. Personality: dimension : from shy to extroverted, categories: you label it into a category as if it was a disease. Definition of normal personality: stable and coherent view of self and others, capacity for intimacy and affiliation, function a adaptively in society with prosocial behaviours (to give, not only in self interest) Personality disorders reflect a failure to adapt to life"s tasks: considers dimensions, adaptive inflexibility: if you don"t have these traits that are the same in situations, you have to be able to manage situations differently. Looks at dimensions of personality: he invented the introverted-extroverted dimensions, also had a neuoticisim-psychoism. Theories of personality: timothy leary- circumplex model (1957), two main axes for classifying personalities: