PSYB30H3 Study Guide - Institutional Review Board, Trait Theory, Experimental Psychology
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What is personality psychology: personality psychology: scientific study of what makes us who we are. Putting it all together: integration: integration: combine building blocks of personality into a whole person, genetics and neurology interact with cognitions, attachments, and motivations, to determine our sexual orientation. How do psychologists study personality: by conducting research using sound methods, scientists able to generalize beyond own findings and add to collective knowledge about given phenomenon and apply results. Irb must include researchers, ethicist, members of community who discuss all research proposals establishes procedures for obtaining informed consent from potential research participants and for explaining all experimental procedures. Chapter 2: personality traits: a good theory (22-43: behavioural residue: physical traces left behind by everyday actions that are hints or cues to the personality of the occupant situations and at different times; measured over a continuum. What do we know about personality from the ideographic approach. Theoretical approach: theoretical approach: theory or common wisdom about human personality.
