PSYB30H3 Chapter 1: Personality - Chapter one
24 Mar 2011
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The ultimate e goal of personality psychology is to construct a scientifically credible account of psychological individuality. Such an account must situate a person in a biological and cultural context while specifying how that person is similar to and different from other persons. Individual differences: is what personality psychologists study in people. What do we know when we know a person? (scenario of amanda in textbook: sketching an outline: dispositional traits -> You have seen her in one setting so it is difficult to generalize, but surprised of how tense she was at the beginning of the evening and how comfortable she was at the end. In general we would say amanda seems to be moody but very warming and caring. By saying this we have begun to sketch a personality portrait. Organizing what i think i might now know about amanda into general statements concerning her characteristic patterns of behavior though and feelings.
