PSYA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Reaction Formation, Trait Theory, Analytical Psychology
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12. 1: contemporary approaches to personality personality: characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and behaving that is unique to each individual, and remains relatively consistent over time and situations. two approaches to understanding personality: personality characteristics. focus on individual. Idiographic approach: creating detailed descriptions of a specific person"s unique. Nomothetic approach: examine personality in large groups of people, with the aim of making generalizations about personality structure. focus on generalized groups. type of people. personality trait: describes a specific psychological characteristic that makes up a part of a person"s personality; how that person is most of the time. Gordon allport : 1930s, first systematic approach to identify all possible traits, tallied. Barnum effect: idea that it"s easier to make people believe their personality is being measured than to actually measure it; people often believe a personality profile describes them well even when it"s false/not grounded in any science. ~18000 words, started the practice of attempting to measure personality traits.
