PSYCH 2B03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Pigeonholing, Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung
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Psychology: precise manipulation of independent variables for the furtherance of compelling theoretical accounts of well-specified phenomena. Psychological triad: how people think, feel, and behave. Inconsistencies or conflicts between thoughts, feelings and behavior are common. Personality psychology vs. clinical psychology: sometimes overlap when patterns of personality are extreme, unusual and cause problems. Both subfields try to understand the whole person at a time, not parts of persons. Personality psychology draws from social, cognitive, developmental, clinical, and biological psychology. Personality: individual"s characteristic patterns of thought, emotion, and behavior, together with psychological mechanisms- hidden or not- behind those patterns. Putting together the pieces of the puzzle; integrated view of whole. Mission: impossible limit what to look at; look for specific patterns to tie together different kinds of observations. Basic approach (paradigm) : systematic, self-imposed limitation. Trait approach: ways that people differ psychologically and how these differences might be conceptualized and measured.