PSYC 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Impulsivity, Extraversion And Introversion, Falsifiability

• School: Emory University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 111
• Professor: Kim Elizabeth

Document Summary

Announcements: sign up for time slot for paper on blackboard additional office hours sheet, paper due 4/6. Overview: what is personality, theories/models of personality, psychoanalytic unconscious conflicts, behavioral focus on rewards/punishments and contingencies in environment, social learning how we think about situations as causes of personality, humanistic free will, trait models. Parents as models of behavior: places heavy emphasis on environmental effects, focuses on shared environment. Parents as models of behavior: if we learn by modeling, we should become like parents and other relatives we share the environment with, behavioral studies show that shared environment has little to no effect on adult personality. Hard to know when you"ve reached full possible self. Could be developing a study and not find anyone: hard to find evidence to go against this idea. Trait models: personality: people"s typical ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving, trait: relatively enduring predispositions that influence our behavior. There are a lot to choose from (over.