PSYC 332 Chapter Notes - Chapter Prologue: Personality Development, Personality Psychology, Gordon Allport
25 Dec 2018
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The shapes and textures of human lives are constrained by the adaptive challenges that all humans faces. Variation on the themes of human nature: many but not infinite. If every human life is a unique work of art, then science enters the picture when we begin to sense regularities amid all the diversity. Observations about psychological similarities and differences in kinds of people we are and in the kinds of lives we live, lead naturally to observations about change. We may note similarities in life trajectories, overall maturational trends, predictable seasons, phases, passages, or epochs in human lives. From the systematizing perspective of psychological science, therefore, similarities and differences may be noted in (1) the kinds of persons we are and (2) the paths we follow as we move through time. We all take careful note of similarities and differences in (1) personality (what kind of person i am) and (2) development (how i have changed over time)
