[PSYB30H3] - Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (18 pages long!)
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If you have not eaten for a while and are experiencing hunger pangs, then your desire for food might override your desire for intimacy. A fissure in the field: different personality psychologists focus on different levels of analysis. And there is a gap within the eld that has not yet been successfully bridged. It is the gap between the human nature level of analysis and the analysis of group and individual differences: many psychologists have theorized about what human nature is like in general. However, when doing research, psychologists most often focus on individual and group differences in personality. Ssure between the grand theories of personality and contemporary research in personality. Standards for evaluating personality theories: five scienti c standards for evaluating personality theories, comprehensiveness, heuristic value, testability, parsimony, compatibility and integration across domains and levels. Sources of personality data: self-report data (s-data): the information a person reveals about his- or herself.
