Psychology 2550A/B Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Personality Psychology, Verbal Behavior, Heredity

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2550A/B
• Professor: David Vollick

Document Summary

Identifying consistent, stable individual differences is an important goal. Predicting & understanding: it makes it possible both to describe people & to try to predict their future behaviour. Levels of analysis: to identify consistencies in the basic expressions of personality = stable personality characteristics. The trait-dispositional level (anything else is considered noise ) In what general ways are people different from each other: explores the biological bases of personality, including the role of heredity (identical twins), the brain, The biological level genetic contribution, & evolution (science wants to disconfirm notions; how do you disconfirm freud?: probes motivations, conflicts, irrational fears and anxiety, defenses - often unconscious that may underlie. Psychodynamic-motivational level (freud & others) diverse aspects of personality: analyzes specific behaviour patterns that characterize individuals, & identifies the conditions that regulate. What do i feel about myself when i don"t meet my parents".