PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Phlegm, Narcissism, Raymond Cattell
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Contemporary approaches to personality 12. 1 and remains relatively consistent over time and situation. Personality: characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and behaving that is unique to each individual, Idiographic approach: creating detailed descriptions of a specific person"s unique personality characteristics (cid:523)ex: (cid:498)trying to figure yourself out(cid:499)(cid:524) Nomothetic approach: examine personality in large groups of people, with the aim of making: can be applied to the full range of human experience generalizations about personality structure. Instead of trying to understand a specific person, this approach may want to understand the factors that predict certain behaviors across people in general. Personality trait: a persons habitual patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving. Trait descriptors are good short-cuts to understanding people. Gordon allport made the first attempt to identify all possible traits: tallied 18000 english words that could be used to describe an individuals physical and psychological attributes.
