Week 1 Flashcards
Personality
Conveys sense of consistency, causal force (internal causality), distinctiveness (summarizes what they’re like)
Intrapersonal Functioning
Idea that there are deterministic tendencies that exist within which are elicited from situational factors
Individual differences
No two ppl are exactly alike.
-perspective on personality should address where these individual differences come from
Purpose of theories
- Explain some phenomena .
- predict new information
How is theory evaluated?
- testable
- generate hypotheses
- research tests theory and verifies or suggests changes
- basing theory on one source weakens it
- parsimony
- good theories lead to strong feelings/opinions
FUNDER-Psychological Triad
Thoughts, feelings & behaviour
(Important independent of each other)
(Inconsistencies is where personality psychology comes in)
Funders Personality def:
Individual’s characteristic patterns of thought, emotion, and behaviour together w psychological mechanisms behind those patterns.
Basic Approaches to Personality (5)
- trait
- biological
- psychoanalytic
- phenomenological
- learning and cognitive
Trait approach
Conceptualization & measurement of individual differences
Biological Approach
Anatomy, physiology, genetics, evolution
Psychoanalytic Approach
Unconscious mind, internal mental conflict
Phenomenological Approach
Conscious awareness and experience, humanistic psychology, cross-cultural psychology
Learning and Cognitive Approach
Behaviourism, social learning theory, cognitive personality psychology.
Reliability
Im measurement, tendency to provide same comparative information on repeated occasions
Measurement Error (Error Variance)
Variation of a number around it’s true mean due to uncontrolled, random influences
