PSYB30H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Sigmund Freud, Scientific Method, Personality Psychology
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Advertising disclaimer: ocean almost seem to have a personality, ocean is made of water, tides, waves, inversions, salt, seaweed, its vast and deep and it changes regularly, to understand personality. We need to understand what a person is like. We need to understand genetics and physiology. We need to consider that there may be parts of the person hidden under the surface. The building blocks of personality: most psychologist understand human personality by understanding traits, genetics, neuroscience, self and identity, intrapsychic aspects, regulation and motivation and cognition, there is also social and environmental forces that impact human personality. Environmental forces: culture, society, socialization by parents and peers. Social forces: from our sense of self and identity to the level of our genetics: traits: describing human personality and identifying important personalities characteristics. A person"s typical way of thinking, feeling and acting in various situations at different times. We can be born with certain physiology - that develop certain characteristics.
