PSYCH101 Study Guide - Final Guide: Erogenous Zone, Thematic Apperception Test, Rorschach Test

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Richard Ennis

Document Summary

Creating detailed descriptions of a specific person"s unique personality characteristics. Helpful for understanding oneself + social world, and full range of human experience. Examine personality in large groups of people, w/ aim of making generalizations about personality structure. Examines factors that predict certain behaviours across people in general. Determines what types of people are more/less likely to engage in certain behaviours. Identify important personality traits that are related to whatever it is that you are interested in understanding. Personality trait = person"s habitual patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving. Gordon allport developed a theory of personality structure by organizing these words into traits trend in personality psychology, attempting to identify and measure key personality traits. Personality scales it"s very easy for people to be convinced that a personality profile describes them well (even if the profile is patently false and not generated to describe them at all) barnum effect .