Introduction Flashcards
Basic approach
Focal topics
Trait approach
Conceptualisation, measurement, and consequences of individual differences.
Personality development and change.
Biological approach
Anatomy
Physiology
Genetics
Evolution
Psychoanalytic approach
Unconscious mind
Internal mental conflict
Phenomenological approach
Conscious awareness experience.
Free will.
Humanistic psychology
Cross-cultural psychology
Learning and cognitive approach
Behaviourism (rewards and punishments)
Social learning theory
Cognitive personality psychology
Psychological triad
How people think, feel, and behave
Funders law
Great strengths are usually great weaknesses and the opposite is also often true
Funder’s second law
There are no perfect indicators of personality, only clues and clues are ambiguous
Psychometric
A study of the measurement of individual differences.
Refutability criterion
A theory can never be proven true because we can never entirely predict the future
Refutability criterion
A theory can never be proven true because we can never entirely predict the future
