PSYCH 2B03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Electrodermal Activity, Psychopathology, Face Validity
10 Sep 2013
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Clues to personality: the basic sources of data. Henry murray: in order to understand personality, first you have to look at it. Personality is manifested by all of the characteristic ways in which the individuals thinks, feels, and behaves. Patterns of thought, emotion, and behaviour such as these typically are complex and may be revealed in many different areas of behaviour and life. Funder"s second law: there are no perfect indicators of personality: there are only clues and clues are always ambiguous. The observable aspects of personality are best characterized as clues; these clues are always ambiguous because personality resides hidden inside each individual. Because you never see personality directly you must infer both its existence and nature, and these inferences are forever uncertain. Inferences about personality must be based on indications that can be observed. The psychologists task is to piece these clues together; the trick is to interpret them correctly.
