PSYB30H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-10: Autobiographical Memory, Episodic Memory, Libido
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Traits: general, internal, and comparative dispositions that we attribute to people in our initial efforts to sort individuals into meaningful behavioral categories. Context of discovery: discover new ways of seeing reality, new terminologies, new categories, new distinctions to describe observations. Context of justification: justify the truth of a given statement proposed by a given theory. Karl popper: falsifiable a theory should specify what observations it would take to disprove its major propositions. Nomothetic approach: discover and test general principles or laws of behavior. Idiographic approach: ignore general laws to discern the specific and individual patternings of particular lives. Proprium: includes all aspects of personality that make for inward unity (gordon allport) Environment of evolutionary adaptedness (eea): the environment in. Inclusive fitness: overall total ability to maximize the replication of genes that designed it (reproductive success of oneself, and close relatives) The selfish gene: genes aim for one thing, and one thing only, self-replication richard dawkins.
