PSYC 473T Lecture 1: Personality
8 Mar 2017
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Personality: distinctive and consistent, traits defined largely by culture that we are in. Personality psychology: how are similarities and disparities conveying something that is meaningful. Important: insight into motivation, how to foster deeper, more meaningful relationships, linked to key life outcomes. Building blocks of personality: traits, patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving. Self and identity: self-concept, esteem, social identity. Intrapsychic foundations: freud, regulation and motivation, self-determination theory, genetics, neuroscience, cognitive foundations. Integration: whole is greater than the sum of the parts. History: hippocrates, humors: 4 bodily fluids influence temperament and health, choleric= irritable, melancholic= depressed, phlegmatic = calm. Personality by psychologists: qualities to individual, distinctive and enduring patterns of feeling, thinking, and behaving. Goals of personality psychology: how we think, how we feel, how we behave, all 3 in combination is studying the whole person, how people become this way. Methods: how to investigate, scientific method, very cyclical, hypothesis (comes from theory that is usually already existing)
