Lecture 1Outline of Current Lecture I. PersonalityII. Why Study Personality?III. Personality TheoriesIV. Historical Trends in PersonalityV. Theories of GravityCurrent LectureI. Personalitya. Learned responsesb. Expression of genetic instructionsc. Social roled. Personal experiencee. Definition: those attributes of an individual that are stable over time and across situationsII. Why Study Personality?a. To understand ourselvesb. To predict other people’s actionsc. We’ve been doing this a long time (3 days after being born)d. Many applications from personal to commercial, to social policy arenasIII. Personality Theoriesa. Idiographic vs. Nomothetici. Idiographic: search for individual rules (applicable to a single person)ii. Nomothetic: search for general rules (app to everyone); measure in reference to populationb. Global vs. Particulari. Global: theory of everything (ex. why there is war)ii. Particular: theory of a particular situation (ex. why am I grumpy in the morning)IV. Historical Trends in Personalitya. Dynamic: Freud, psychoanalysisb. Behavioral: learned behavior (personality vs. learned)c. Trait: study individual traits (2 questions- How do we study? What traits do we study?)d. Cognitive- behavioral and social cognition: thinking about personality beliefs and attitudes affectpersonalitye. Cross-cultural: difference in culture (how do cultures cause people to be good?) PSYC 330 1st Editionf. Evolutionary: studies adaptive value of personality traitsV. Theories of Gravity (How theories began)a. Gravity is an unseen force attracting all matter togetherb. Gravity is invisible green men holding things