APSY2240 Study Guide - Falsifiability, Nomothetic

• School: Boston College
• Department: Counseling, Developmental, and Educational Psychology
• Course: APSY2240
• Professor: All

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Religion: western religious traditions people"s nature is primarily spiritual a spirit inhabits the body while it is on earth, eastern philosophies/religions emphasize self awareness and spiritual self fulfillment, renaissance and after the nature of the human spirit was not taken for granted but was analyzed and observed. Animal personality: pet personalities owners can describe uniqueness in their pets, research on animal personality helps us think in new ways about assessing and conceptualizing human personality, chimps personalities are clearly associated with the chimps behavior patterns in different social environments. Emphasized the whole human being should be the focus of study, not parts of the being and not collections of organisms: modern view: a successful approach cannot ignore the integrity of the individual or the various forces conscious and unconscious, biological and social operating at any moment, margaret mead personality heavily influenced by culture, but should not be student in only one culture or one context.