PSYB30H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Scientific Theory, Gordon Allport, Dependent And Independent Variables
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Ultimate goal of personality psychology is to construct a scientifically credible account of psychological individuality. Individual differences: characteristics of persons that can be said to differ with respect to amount or degree from one person to the next. Such concepts as personality traits", motives, schemas, and stages are typically understood as aspects of individual differences in personality. These may be contrasted to species typical characteristics, which are assumed to be more or less universal features of persons, that is, most all members of the human species. Big five: (ocean) many personality psychologists argue that many different dispositional traits that might be invoked to outline psychological individuality can be grouped into about five categories. Good natured, soft hearted, courteous, forgiving, sympathetic, agreeable. Conscientious, careful, reliable, well organized, self-disciplined, preserving www. notesolution. com. Characteristic adaptations: contextualized facets of psychological individuality that speak to motivational, cognitive, and developmental concerns in personality.
