PSYCH 2B03 Midterm: Personality Psychology Midterm 1.docx
23 Oct 2013
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Chapter 1 the study of the person. Psychological triad: personality psychology addresses how a person feels, thinks and behaves. Personality: an individual"s characteristic patterns of thought, emotion and behaviour. Trait approach: focus on the ways that people differ psychologically, and how differences might be conceptualized and measured (personality traits) Biological approach: address biological mechanisms (anatomy, physiology, genetics) Psychoanalytic approach: concerned w/ unconscious mind and nature and resolution of internal mental conflict. Phenomological approach: focus on people"s conscious experience of the world: can lead to humanistic psychology: how conscious awareness contribute to human attributes, or can lead to cross-cultural psychology: how experience of reality is different in cultures. Learning and cognitive approach: people change behaviours from rewards, punishments, experiences: classic behaviourists -> overt behaviour (b. f. skinner, social learning theory: ways mental processes determine behaviours (learned & performed) Funder"s first law: great strengths are usually great weaknesses, and surprisingly, often the opposite is true as well.
