PSYC1001 Final: Personality Final Exam Review

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24 Jul 2018
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Why study personality: the desire to know oneself, the desire to know another person, the desire to be able to predict behaviour, the desire to understand and overcome problems. As deeply, completely and precisely as possible. (shoba and mischel, 1996) Personality psychology is the broadest of all psychological disciplines, one that attempts to understand both human nature and the ways in which individuals differ. (buss 2011) The approach of investigating large groups of people in order to find general laws of behaviour that apply to everyone. Nomos= laws in ancient greek; this approach assumes that an individual is a complex combination of many universal laws; it is best to study people on a large scale. Quantitative experimental methods are best to identify the universal laws governing behaviour. The individual will be classified with others and measured as a score upon a dimension, or be a statistic supporting a general principle ( averaging")