PSYC 2310H- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 72 pages long!)
28 Mar 2018
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Study guide psych 2310 week 1 september 12th, 2017. Five goals for the personality theorist: observation that is scientific. Study large and diverse groups of people. Use specialized assessments to study cognitive, affective and biological functions: theory that is systematic, theory that is testable (prove it!, theory that is comprehensive, application from theory to practice. Defining personality: the field of personality addresses three issues that are difficult to reconcile, human universals, individual differences, individual uniqueness. Psychological qualities that contribute to an individual"s enduring and distinctive patterns of feeling, thinking and behaving. Consistent across time and across different situations: distinctive. Features that differentiate people from one another: contribute to. Factors that causally influence, and thus at least partly explain, an individual"s tendencies: feeling, thinking, and behaving. Questions about persons: what, how, and why: a complete theory of personality should yield a coherent set of answers to these three types of questions, what.
