PSYCH 2B03 Lecture Notes - Personality Psychology, Psych, Unconscious Mind
16 Jun 2013
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Chapter 19: conclusion looking back and looking ahead. Each basic approach to personality focuses on a limited number of key concerns and pretty much ignores everything else. To say which one is right, the different approaches to personality psychology would have to give different answers to the same question. A better criterion for evaluating a psychological approach is: does it offer a way to seek an answer to a question you feel is worthwhile. The approaches branch off from , react to, and interact with each other in a way that suggests an order in which to present them. Any approach that tried to account for all of the key concerns of the current five basic approaches would almost inevitably be unwieldy, confusing, incoherent, and incomplete. The existence of alternative viewpoints can keep us open-minded toward phenomena that any one view may fail to include.
