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Title: Studying the Person
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Created: 2012-01-22
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    • Side 3
    • Personality psychology is ...
    • the scientific study of the whole person
    • • Personality psychologists often study _______ in people
    • individual differences
    • account for consistencies we perceive or expect in behaviour from one situation to the next over time
    • traits
    • • Good trait measures are useful in predicting ________and _________
    • behaviour over time
      across situations
    • What are the bif five traits
    • openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism
    • broad dimensions of personality that describe assumedly internal, global, and stable individual differences in behaviour, thought and feeling
    • Dispositional traits
    • are contextualized facets of human individuality that speak to motivational, cognitive, and developmental concerns
    • characteristic adaptations
    • is an internalized and evolving narrative of the self that integrates the reconstructed past, perceived present, and anticipated future in order to provide a life with a sense of unity and purpose
    • life story
    • Seven standards by which a scientific theory may be judged:
    • 1) comprehensiveness
      2) Parsimony
      3) coherence
      4) testability
      5) empirical validity
      6) Usefulness
      7) generativity
    • What are the three steps in building a study?
    • 1) unsystematic observation
      2)building theories
      3) evaluating propositions
    • -scientific hypothesis should be
    • grounded in theories
    • The two general formats of hypothesis testing research are the _____ and the ______
    • correlation and experimental design
    • - American psychology was ______ meaning it aimed to discover and test general principles or laws of behaviours
    • nomothetic
    • - Allport argued for an ______ approach to personality, which ignores general laws to discern the specific and individual patternings of particular lives
    • idiographic
    • - _____to ____was marked by the establishment of the field and the development of a number of general systems
    • 1930 to 1950
    • _____ and ____personality psychologists proposed comprehensive conceptual systems for understanding the person
    • 1930s and 1940s
    • - ____ to ____ focussed instead on problems and controversies concerning personality measurement
    • 1950 to 1970
    • “includes all aspects of personality that make for inward unity”
    • Proprium
    • neuropsychic structure having the capacity to render many stimuli functionally equivalent and to initiate and guide equivalent forms of adaptive and expressive behaviour”
    • trait
    • during the ___ and ____ was Mischel's critique in which he argued against explantions of human behaviour based on internal personality traits and in favour of explanations that focused on the situational and cognitive/social learning determinants of behaviour
    • 1960s and early 70s
    • the scientist attempts to evaluate or “justify” the truth of a given statement proposed by a given theory
    • context of justification