PSYC 332 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Shy People, Consistency
29 Apr 2013
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The big 5 traits: comparative, superficial, coding. Variable, changeable, more specific in certain times in life. Insight how they think of themselves, how they make sense of everything that happens to them. Personality is the study of the whole person. You need level 3 to understand whole person. Impossible to integrate all the varies aspects of personality and only way is with life narrative. Narrative frame work is flexible enough to provide integration. Also interested in understanding others as unique person. The big 5 traits do not allow to understand others as unique individual. Even level 2 cannot pin down people"s uniqueness. But once we understand life story, quite likely that is unique. Prof"s brother stayed in the car while family went into museum because he lowered back seat window. Prof didn"t really like traveling with parents because his mother refused to stop for food. But this time the hotel had a pool, made the new friends.
