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Personality
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Psychological qualities that contribute to an individual's enduring and distinctive patterns of feeling, thinking, and behaving.
Scientific study of the whole person: • Human universals • Individual differences • Individual uniqueness |
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Mechanism
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Pushed from behind, caused by something before it "cascading effect"
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Teleology
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Pulled from ahead "fate"
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Good theory consists of 5 expectations:
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1. Systematic (logical)
2. Comprehensive (how much subject matter is explained?) 3. Simple (parsimony, heuristic), (how much conceptual machinery required, trade of comprehensiveness and simplicity) 4. Testable (theories that continually stand up to good theories) 5. Generative (motivates lots of research and additional theory) |
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Sources of Info about people
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LOTS of data
S Data: Self-report. Pros: Easy to collect large amounts of data. Cons: Are they telling the truth, do they even know? O Data: Observer data. Not always consistent with S-data L Data: Life history - gather info from historical records. Can get info that people don't know about self. L-limited, records not always available T Data: Test- Give people objective tests (IQ, GRE, etc.) Observe their behavior. |
