PSYC-105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Dysfunctional Family, Biopsychosocial Model, Psychosurgery
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Personality the way you act roughly 80% of the time and in the 80% of the situations they are in. , and idiographic approaches are qualitative (interview and transcript your interview and look for common themes. : often use qualitative when you are trying to study something that hasn"t really. Causes of personality (nature vs. nurture: behaviour-genetic methods attempt to disentangle the effects of been studied before, genetic factors, we are very careful when we say that there is a genetic component . Birth order: most research has failed to find link between personality and order of birth, typically first borns are more achieving than the younger, one possible exception is acceptance of radical scientific ideas, later borns were more accepting. Sigmund freud: viennese neurologist who developed first comprehensive theory of personality, was the first person to come up with a fully working model of the human mind.