PSYA02H3- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 108 pages long!)

• School: UTSC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYA02H3
• Professor: Kyle Danielson

Document Summary

Define personality + idiographic & nomothetic approaches. List components of well designed personality inventory (test) Provide criticisms of a poorly designed personality inventory. Summarize components of the minnesota multiphasic personality inventory + its. Describe the trait approach to studying personality. List the big five personality dimensions and provide examples of each validity scales. Personality : individual"s characteristic style of behaviour, thought, and feeling; relatively stable across time and situations. Idiographic approach : individual differences , how does the individual differ from the. Nomothetic approach : common trends, focus on the collective, how we"re all similar to rest average person one another in how personalities develop. How characteristics are measured personality inventories. Why does an individual have these characteristics. How people interact with others, deals with challenges, changes behaviour over different situation. Problem: people are reactive; change behaviour when they are being watched.