PSY 2403 1st Edition Lecture 2 Outline of Current Lecture I. Interest in PersonalityII. What is Personality?III. Personality TheoryIV. What makes a Theory Useful?V. Determinants of PersonalityCurrent LectureI. Interest in Personalitya. Curiosity with what makes people tickb. Prior to modern erai. Oracles, fortune tellers, etcii. Pseudosciences: false assumptions and biased observationsc. Where do we see personality?i. Headlines, motion pictures/books, professional journalsII. What is Personality?a. Word stems from “persona” or “mask”b. Personality defined: a pattern of relatively permanent traits, dispositions, or characteristics that give some consistency to human behaviorc. Private definition: stresses private, central, inner cored. Social definition: public, social stimulus or organized behavioral characteristics that are visiblee. Global definition: i. Composite of qualities or characteristicsii. Sum total of the physical, mental, emotional, social qualitiesIII. Personality TheoryThese notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.a. Concerns of Personality Theoryi. How are we all alike – human natureii. How are some of us different – shared cultureiii. How are we unique – particular cluster of genes and experiencesb. Goals of Personality Theoryi. Describe what humans are likeii. Explain why we are like we areiii. Not to change how we areIV. What makes a theory useful?a. Generates Researchb. Is falsifiable (verifiable)c. Organizes known datad. Guides action (practical)e. Is parsimonious (simple)f. Has predictive efficiencyV. Determinants of Personality (what affects personality)a. Genetics *people attribute personality to this determinant mostb. Physical traitsc. Sociocultural determinantsd. Learninge. Existential Humanisticf. Unconscious mechanismsg. Cognitive
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