PSYC 332 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Karl Popper, Testability, Gordon Allport
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Studying the person: personality psychology is the scienti c study of the whole person and puts everything together, ultimate goal of personality psychology is to construct a scienti cally credible account of psychological individuality. 4,500 seem to refer to relatively: today, we have managed to categorize all 4,500 traits/terms to what is known as the big five traits. Constructing a story: integrative life narratives who they are come together into some kind of sensible whole - integrate their lives in time. If lives are like texts, their meanings are hidden between the lines society: postmodern view: people are storytellers who make themselves anew with each new conversation they have, each new story they tell and perform. Broad dimensions of personality that describe assumedly internal, global, and stable individual differences in behaviour, thought and feeling. Traits account for consistency in individual functioning across different situations and over time.