PSYC 305: EXAM 1
10 Cards in this Set
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Definition of Personality
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-> Mostly intuitive
-> important to recognize: set of psychological traits and mechanisms
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3 levels of personality
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1) Human Nature
2) Individual and Group Differences
3) Individual Uniqueness
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1) Human Nature
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the fact we are all humans! eg. ability to empathize. importance of relationships: fundamental to human species. one way to define personality => evolutionary perspective
eg. chimps: dominance is important
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How we are like some others
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eg. men higher rates of aggression than women
people exist on a continumm
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introversion vs extraversion
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some are like this some are not
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How we are like no others
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uniqueness: we really are all different from everyone else
-> David doesn't like banana stickers, lives on bowen
-> experiences are all different!
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Prison experiements?
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what is it due to? human nature, individual differences, unique case?
situation vs. person debate?
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Person x Situation
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a persons behaviour is never completely explained by inner qualities OR outside experience. must be some combination
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6 Domains of Knowledge
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Limitation
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all theories are just perspectives, they don't really have to work together.
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PSYC 305: EXAM 2