PSYB30H3 Chapter 1: Chapter 1 - Who Am I? Understanding the Building Blocks of Personality.doc
Document Summary
Ocean = personality it"s not just water, it"s more and it changes. Some personality is universal (genetics, physiology, neurology), some is unique (introversion/extroversion) and some share the same experiences (caregivers, sexual adjustment, etc. ) Personality psychology the scientific study of what make us who we are. The study of individual differences: identifying ways in which people are both similar and different and explaining how they became that way. Individual differences in locus of control, learned helplessness, learned hopelessness, and optimism-pessimism whole person. Integration combine the building blocks of personality into a. Interaction between the building blocks result in human experience eg. Empiricism using direction experience to draw conclusions about the world. Scientific method how to make and test observations about the world in order to draw conclusions while minimizing error or bias: facts theories questions predictions controlled tests. Publish results to verify: less casual observation, more controlled experimentation where researchers attempt to prove a theory false, more research support = law.
