[PSYC 473T] - Midterm Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (19 pages long)

• School: Binghamton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 473T
• Professor: Balderamma- Durbin

Document Summary

Personality psychology: scientific study of what makes us who we are; the study of individual differences. Although we can study the individual elements that make up the human personality, the elements come together to create a whole person in a way that is not reducible to its part. Distinctive and consistent: distinctive: dominant traits, looking for patterns. Traits are defined largely by culture that we are in. Personality psychology: how are similarities and disparities conveying something that is meaningful. Personality by psychologists: qualities to individual distinctive and enduring patterns of feeling, thinking, and behaving. Goals of personality psychology: how we think, how we feel, how we behave. Combination is studying the whole person: how people became this way. Genetics, family, trauma, resources, culture, spirituality/religion, education, unconscious motivations, etc. A person"s typical way of thinking, feeling, and acting in various situations at different times. Traits will be consistent across our lives and will be expressed in all sorts of ways.