PSYCH 2B03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Humanistic Psychology, Psychoanalytic Theory, Construals
7 Dec 2018
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The field of personality seeks to study the whole person and everything that is important about an individual"s psychology-but this is difficult. The different approaches to personality are not different answers to the same question. So each approach to personality explains some aspects of individuals, while not explaining other aspects or ignoring them entirely. Thus, the choice between approaches depends not on which one is right, but on what we wish to know. Knowing about research methods is critical for understanding research in personality psychology or any other topic, and also just might get you a job: cross-situational consistency and aggregation: Behaviour does change from one situation to the next. The most talkative person at a party will for sure talk less in class. But he will probably talk more than everyone in class. The point in this is that he maintains his individual differences: 2.
