01 23 2015 PPE 3003 Lecture 1 What is Personality 01 23 2015 Define personality A person s temperament and way of expressing themselves how one consistently behaves How are people similar vs different Human nature o How we are like all others Individual and group differences o How we are like some others Individual uniqueness o How we are like no others Human nature How we are like all others Personality features possessed by nearly everyone Group differences other groups Individual differences others Individual uniqueness How people are like some others in their group different from o Ex cultural diffs age diff i e older people are generally more agreeable than younger people Ways in which we are like some others different from some o Ex being high low in sensation seeking How we are like no others Everyone has unique qualities not shared by any other person What is personality The context o Human nature and culture o Dispositional personality traits The outline The details o Characteristic adaptations The meaning o Integrative life stories Dispositional personality traits A unique set of consistent emotional cognitive and behavioral dispositions or tendencies The outline of personality Traits how people typically feel think and act They are useful because they can o Describe people o Explain behavior o Predict future behavior Characteristic adaptations The details of personality Aspects of psychological individuality that are contextualized in time place and or role o Motivational factors what do people want in life o Cognitive factors values beliefs expectancies plans etc o Developmental factors evolution of the self identity over time Integrative life stories The meaning of personality An internalized and evolving narrative of the self that integrates the past present and future What is personality A patterning of dispositional traits characteristic adaptations and integrative life stories set in culture and shaped by human evolution Distinguishing personality psychology Deiff fro developmental psychology o How people change over time vs in what ways they stay the same o Focus on adulthood Diff from clinical psychology o Study of normal functioning vs study of disorders Diff from social psychology o Focus on the situation vs the person 01 23 2015
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