PSY230H5- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 17 pages long!)
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Why did i become a professor of psychology? . Two approaches to understanding personality : idiographic versus nomothetic approach. The idiographic (person-centered) approach: focuses on one individual at a time, tries to understand an individual"s actions from the individual"s characteristics. A focus on the relation between individual differences in one variable (e. g. , shyness) and another variable (e. g. , age of marriage). Biographies of famous people (e. g. , winston churchill) More complete understanding of a single individual. Difficult to test scientifically cannot repeat the experiment. Insights do not generalize to other individuals. Not good for everyday people like you and me. Self-esteem correlates . 60 with life-satisfaction. (diener, et al. Objective (e. g. , research findings can be replicated) Offers a more complete understanding of many people. Findings are useful for everyday people like you and me. Boring: no juicy stories of personal life events. Correlations reflect the direction and the strength of the relation between two variables.
