PSYC 370 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Mental Disorder, Scientific Method, Personality Disorder

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 370
• Professor: Robert Ley

Document Summary

1. ) the dynamic organization within the individual of those psychological systems that determine his characteristic behaviour and thought (allport) But it often stands as the organization of inner conflicts rather than their resolution (psycho-analytic theory) (gay) 3. ) the study of phenomenon that occur in interpersonal situations, in configurations made up of two or more people, all but one of whom may be more or less completely illusory. 4. ) that which permits a prediction of what a person will do in a given situation (cattell) 5. ) simple a device for representing a functionally unified system of responses (skinner) 6. ) those characteristics of the person that account for consistent patterns of feeling, thinking, and behaving (pervin, cervone & john) personality theories. Concerned with the nature of human nature. Consider motives, feelings, thinking and action the forces that drive us and order our emotion & cog life. Recognizable continuity of personality from situation to situation over the lifespan.