what is personality Flashcards
what is personality
-descriptive characteristics
motives and goals
values
emotional tendecies
memories/life stories
personality
consistent and enduring patterns of
thoughts(belifs,values,expectacies)
feelings (emotions,passions)
behaviours(actions ,what you do)
that influences person’s interactions to the enviroment
the field of personality pshychology
personality phychology carry out reserch,assesments,theories about personality
that have the ultimate goal of explaining behaviour
where do personality psychologists work?
university and collagesd
reserch institutions
CIA,FBI
organizational consulting firms
advertisingment/marketing
three levels of personality analysis
every human being is :
- like all others: human nature level(all people are similar in some level)
ex:every human being needs comfort
- like some others Group level(people very on common dimensions)
ex:some are more sociable then others
-like no others: individual level(each person is unique )
ex:gabriel won an award for intelligence
example
are humans evil?
like all others: are we all evil?
some others: some are just evil?
like no others: was scar evil?/is it individual cases?
