PPE 3003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Formal Methods, Statistical Significance, Psych
19 Mar 2016
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Formal meaning: abstract construct: very general, broadly applicable. Conveys sense of consistency and continuity: across time, across situation (she"s like this, except for when x happens) Suggests internal origins of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors: emphasizes person and their behavior in certain situations. Helps in predicting and understanding behavior: be careful when talking about politics, you"ll get an ear full . Captures a sense of personal distinctiveness (cid:1) Personality: organized structure, active processes, psych and physical components, helps determine how people relate to the world, demonstrates patters and consistencies, manifests itself across a range of thoughts, feeling, behaviors (cid:1) Individual differences: represent differences in people, examples: aggressiveness, sociability, optimism. Represent stable processes that underlie thoughts, feelings, behaviors. Chapter 2: methods in the study of personality. Informal sources of info: observation of self: introspection, self reflection. Routes of psych come from this: observance of others. Formal methods: case study, experience sampling.
