PSY 0160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Personality Psychology, Gordon Allport
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Personality: psychological qualities (attributes), contribute to enduring and distinctive, patterns of feeling, thinking and behaving. Human universals: what is generally true about everybody. Individual differences: how does one person differ from another. Scientific observation: large and diverse groups of people (representative, objective (accurate and avoid bias, using useful assessment tools. Systematic: relates all of its ideas together. Structure: building blocks (units of analysis) Process: changes over time, changes in different situations or stages. Development: growth into how we become who we are.
