PSY 321 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Active Set Method, Rieti
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Tends to act socially (the way they talk, manners, how they interact with people) How do we think about personality: how you react to something, unique and long lasting personalities, consistency/ continuity something that is the same in different situations time after time, originating from within, manifests in different ways. Why personality: compared to social psychology, same people are different in different situations vs, different people are different in same situation, relation to abnormal psychology, curiosity, predi(cid:272)tio(cid:374) of others" (cid:271)ehavior predict your encounter. Working definition: personality is the dynamic organization, within the individual, of psychophysical systems that (cid:272)reate the perso(cid:374)"s (cid:272)hara(cid:272)teristi(cid:272) patter(cid:374)s of (cid:271)ehavior, thoughts, a(cid:374)d feeli(cid:374)gs. (adapted fro(cid:373) Allport, 1961: components, organization, dynamic active set of process to the thoughts and feelings, psychophysical, create causes you to do certain things and behave a certain way, patterns of behavior, thoughts, and feelings.
