PSYC 464 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Personality Psychology, Humanistic Psychology

• School: Xavier University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 464
• Professor: Nicholas Salsman

Document Summary

Also defined as an individual"s unique and relatively consistent patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving. The psychological triad how people think, how people feel, how people behave. A person is shaped by environment, emotion, actions, physiology, and thoughts. Personality = an individual"s characteristic patterns of thought, emotion, and behavior, together with the psychological mechanisms hidden or not behind those patterns (pg. Goal of personality psychology explain the whole person in his/her daily environment impossible to account for everything. There"s no one theory that can cover all of personality.