PSY 260 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Gordon Allport, Behavioral Neuroscience, Twin
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Personality perspectives: reflect broad areas of interest such as: biological underpinnings, psychological processes. Personality theories: sets of related assumptions about personality: psychodynamic, humanistic. Micro-theories: specific sets of testable hypotheses: people repress uncomfortable memories, people"s motives direct them in different ways. *all theoretical levels are informed by empirical findings. Major perspectives biological, intro-psychic, social, developmental each has sub- micro theories. Why study theoretical perspectives: they collect together theoretical issues concerning personality that have emerged throughout history, understanding them provides a context for what you will encounter, personality psychologists are informed by them. Biopsychology: concerns biological explanations and substrates for psychological phenomena, major theories, psychoevolutionary procreation and survival drives everything, biopsychological think about things that have hereditarily happened. Individuals who answer those questions better than others are better adapted: because they better adapt, they are better able to survive and reproduce, their genes in the gene pool that control behavioral differences.
