PSYCH 2B03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-3: Experience Sampling Method, Social Learning Theory, Personality Psychology
18 Mar 2013
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Chapter one: the study of the person conflicts and inconsistencies. Psychological triad: how people think, feel, and behave. Draws and contributes to social, cognitive, developmental, clinical and biological psychology. The goals of personality psychology assemble and integrated view of whole, functioning individuals in their daily environments. Personality: an individual"s characteristic patterns of thought, emotion and behaviour, together with psychological mechanisms behind those patterns. Behaviourism: overt behaviour and ways it can be affected by rewards/punishements (skinner) (e. g. teach dog tricks) cognitive process: applying insights, methods derived from the study of perception, memory and thought. Different approaches complement each other as they address different sets of questions about human psychology. Distinct approaches vs. the one big theory theory that explains everything will not be able to provide best explanation for any one thing. Different issues need to be viewed from different perspectives.
