Psychology 2550A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Mental Event, Impulsivity, Psychoanalytic Theory
20 Jan 2013
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Personality is equated with social skills and effectiveness. Personality may be taken to be an individual"s most striking or dominant characteristic. Different people respond differently to similar events. One goal of personality psych is to find and describe the differences between people. Personality refers to qualities of individuals that are relatively stable. Change in a person"s behaviour can be meaningful and tell you more about the individual rather than their personality. Coherence in the pattern of change in an individual"s behaviour may be another key component of personality. Term personality" implies continuity or consistency in the individual. Observed differences may be meaningful indicators of individual differences in the personality of the students (charles and jane) To try and describe people and predict future behaviour, personality psychologists identify consistent and stable differences between individuals. Definition assumption that there are stable individual differences and these differences reflect an underlying organization or structure.
