PSYCH 2B03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Electrodermal Activity, Face Validity, Statistical Significance
8 Dec 2015
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Personality an individual"s characteristic patterns of thought, emotion, and behaviour. Basic approach: a systematic, self-imposed limitation, a measurement of individual differences. Trait approach: focus efforts on the way people differ psychologically and how these differences might be conceptualized and measured. Biological approach: try to understand the mind in terms of the body, they address biological mechanisms anatomy, physiology, genetics, evolution. Learning approach: how people change their behaviour as a result of rewards, social learning theory observations and self-evaluation punishments, and other experiences in life (through learning) determine which behaviours are learned and how they are performed. Personality psychology needs to look at people from all of these directions and utilize all of these approaches because different issues are best viewed from different perspectives. Funder"s first law great strengths are usually great weaknesses, and surprisingly often the opposite is true as well: this law applies to fields of research, theories, and individual people.
