PSYA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Shyness, Morphine, Unconditional Positive Regard

• School: UTSC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYA02H3
• Professor: Steve Joordens

Document Summary

Personality: a partic pattern of behav and thinking that prevails across time and situations and differentiates one person from another. Goal of psychs is to discover the causes of individ diff in behav. Use diff tests, or identify events (bio and enviro) that cause ppl to behave the way they do. Research on human personality requires two kinds of effort: Identifying personality charac and determining the variables that prod and ctrl them. Must avoid nominal fallacy; false belief that the causes of an event are explained by simply naming and identifying them: trait theories of personality. First categorizations of personality was based on concept of personality traits. Personality theorists think of personality in everyday life; those that determine the ways we act and react in diff situations. Earliest known explanation for diff in personality first proposed by hippocrates in 4th cent bce then refined by successor, galen in 2nd cent ce.