PSYCH 2B03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Unconscious Mind, Walter Mischel, Personality Psychology
9 Sep 2013
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Personality psychology addresses how people feel, think, and behave (three parts of the psychological triad) More interesting in combination and in conflict. Inconsistencies between feelings, thoughts, and behaviours are common enough to make us suspect the mind is not a simple place. Personality psychology draws heavily from social, cognitive, developmental, clinical, and biological psychology. Personality refers to an individual"s characteristic patterns of thought, emotion, and behaviour, together with the psychological mechanisms behind those patterns. This mission is the source of personality psych"s biggest difficulty. If you try to understand everything about a person at once you will be overwhelmed. Classic behavioursists focus on overt behaviour and the ways it can be affected by rewards and punishments. Social learning theory draws inferences about the ways that mental processes such as observation and self-evaluation determine which behaviours are learned and how they are performed. They complement rather then compete because each addresses different questions about human psychology.
