PSYC 2130 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Thomas Szasz, Testability, Full Face Diving Mask
16 Oct 2016
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Persona a full-face mask that told the audience to expect a particular set of attitudes and behaviors: concept of personality did not emerge until the 18th century. Personality the unique, dynamic organization of characteristics of a particular person, physical and psychological, which influence behavior and responses to the social and physical environment. Of theses characteristics some will be entirely unique to the specific person (i. e. memories, habits, mannerisms) and others will be shared with many or all other people. A scientific field is generally considered mature when more of its practitioners accept and operate within the same paradigm (theoretical framework). We refer to the major theoretical orientations to personality psychology as strategies: strategies have been the most fundamental (cid:862)guidi(cid:374)g lights(cid:863) i(cid:374) the s(cid:272)ie(cid:374)tifi(cid:272) (cid:449)o(cid:396)k on personality. The four strategies that serve as a starting point for approaching personality scientifically are: the psychoanalytic strategy .
