PSY 340 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Social Learning Theory, Humanistic Psychology, Netflix
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Summarize the main objectives of personality psychology: mission is to explain whole persons. It"s impossible; if you try to understand everything about a person all at once you get overwhelmed: the psychological triad. Ex intending to do homework but watching netflix instead: personality psychology is important because personality psychologist regard these puzzles as worth their full attention. Understand that each approach has strengths that may also be weaknesses and vice versa. (funder"s first law: each is good at addressing certain topics and poor at addressing others. Behaviorism is effective at changing behavior in part because it ignores everything else, whereas the phenomenological approach is able to offer a coherent account of free will because it overlooks how reinforcement can shape behavior. The good points come with and are even sometimes a consequence of the bad points, and vice versa. Understand that personality is not directly observable, and data are clues: personality resides hidden inside each individual, observable aspects are clues.
