PSYB30H3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Heritability, Lexical Hypothesis, Job Performance
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Lec 1: intro & chapter 1: the study of the person. Personality: an individual"s characteristic patterns of thought, emotion, and behaviour, together with the psychological mechanisms - hidden or not- behind those patterns (p. 5); an individual"s unique and relatively consistent patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving. Goal of personality psychology: explain the whole person in his/her environment. Since this is impossibility, researchers must limit their scope to certain kinds of obs/patterns and certain ways of thinking about these patterns in order to understand personality = basic approach aka paradigm. Basic approaches to personality: a theoretical view of personality that focuses on some phenomena and ignores others. Aka paradigm: reps a theoretic view of personality that focuses on some phenomena and ignores others. 5 basic approaches: trait approach: the theoretical view of personality that focuses on individual differences in personality and behaviour, and the psychological processes behind them; These approaches are not mutually exclusive, they generally address different questions.
