[PSYC 31A] - Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (23 pages long!)

• School: Brandeis University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 31a
• Professor: Wright Ellen

Document Summary

Closely linked to what it means to be a person. Americans - composite nature of personality, malleability, dynamic relations to the social environment. Europeans - deep structure, fundamental continuities, and the internal aspects of its development. Set of abstract concepts developed about facts, ideas, events that is used to explain the phenomena. Oldest way of the three - understanding self and others, theater, art, negotiation. Assessment - your text places this here, but it really belongs with science, with issues of validity and reliability. Philosophical basis of science - paradigmatic (model) with scientific statements made based on currently accepted paradigms. Consensual validation (agreement among observers) and generalizations (applied to a specified class of observations) E. g. some people hear the voice of god, cannot be verified by science. Internalized / evolving narrative of the self integrating the reconstructed past, perceived present, anticipated future to provide life with a sense of unity and purpose.