PSYB30H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Learned Helplessness, Trait Theory, Personality Psychology
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Personality psychology: scientific study of what makes us who we are. The study of individual differences for identifying ways in which people are both similar and different and for explaining how they became that way. Studying the building blocks or raw materials that make us think and act as we do. All the individual elements that make up the human personality come together to create a whole person in a way that is not reducible to its parts. Some individual parts that come together to create a whole person: Socialization by parents and peers traits- a person"s typical way of thinking, feeling, & acting in various situations, at different times. We may develop certain characteristics but there are many other characteristics that we can develop from our socialization (parents, peers, teachers, society ), and from our personal experiences. Personality starts with our genetic makeup that we have inherited from each of our birth parents.
