PSYB30H3 Lecture Notes - Falsifiability, Castration Anxiety, Oedipus Complex
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Why are people different from each other. We can understand ourselves as products of the evolutionary process. We are learners; we acquire through learning different behaviours and personalities. Level 1: personality traits/ dispositions sketching the outline . What is it that we know when we know a person. There are three different answers or levels with respect to this question. Level 2: characteristic adaptations filling in the detail . A theory is a set of interrelated statement. We theorize to make sense of observations. The building block of theory is a construct. Any idea we use to categorize an observation in the world. The problem with psychological construct is that there are usually not observable. Constructs are connected to each other by correspondence rules. Correspondence rules describe how one construct is related to another construct; the expected relationship between to constructs. Correspondence rules are used to derive a hypothesis or prediction.
