PSY 321 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Walter Mischel, Gordon Allport, Nomothetic
1 May 2017
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What is the trait approach: nomothetic vs. idiographic. Nomothetic: very generalize, and is typical for the natural sciences. It describes the effort to derive laws that explain objective phenomena in general. Idiographic: the trait is individualize, the traits that you used to describe personality are going to be tailored to different individuals. Very different if you move to different persons (more limited) When we talk about a trait, we should be able to apply it: gordon allport (starting to see a bit of the history of psychology) Predict behavioral trends (if you are trying to predict a. Therefore, studying personality is kind of a waste of time. If you look at the data, there is a upper limit of how much you can predict the personality, only about 0. 3. Therefore, situation must be more important in determining people"s behavior. Unfair literature review (cid:523)can"t only look at the flaw studies(cid:524) Leftover predictive power (how strong of an effect is,
