PSY 505 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-5: Carl Jung, Harry Stack Sullivan, Dream Interpretation
19 Oct 2016
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Chapter 1: we all think about personality in our day-to-day lives. The work of personality theorists differ from this everyday thinking in that personality theories pursue ve goals that are uncommon in everyday thinking about persons. They engage in 1) scienti c observations that underlie theories that are 2) internally coherent and systematic. In developing theories that encompass these issues, the theorist hopes to develop a framework that serves three scienti c functions: 1) organizing existing knowledge about personality 2)fostering new knowledge on important issues, and. 3)identifying new issues for study: the existence of multiple theories in the eld can be understood by thinking of theories as toolkits, each of which provides unique conceptual tools for doing the jobs of the personality psychologist. Chapter 2: research involves the systematic study of relationships among phenomena or events. Four types of data are obtained in personality research : l-data, o-data, t-data, and s-data(lots).
