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PSYC 305: EXAM 1
Definition of Personality |
-> Mostly intuitive
-> important to recognize: set of psychological traits and mechanisms
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3 levels of personality |
1) Human Nature
2) Individual and Group Differences
3) Individual Uniqueness |
1) Human Nature |
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 |
eg. men higher rates of aggression than women
people exist on a continumm |
introversion vs extraversion |
some are like this some are not
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How we are like no others |
uniqueness: we really are all different from everyone else
-> David doesn't like banana stickers, lives on bowen
-> experiences are all different! |
Prison experiements? |
what is it due to? human nature, individual differences, unique case?
situation vs. person debate?
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Person x Situation |
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 |
all theories are just perspectives, they don't really have to work together.
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