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Welcome to Psychology of Personality!

Welcome to Psychology of Personality!. Please pick up a syllabus & index card from the front table and have a seat On index card write: Name, year & major Psychology courses you have taken Why you are taking this course Something unusual/interesting about you. First Day Outline.

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Welcome to Psychology of Personality!

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  1. Welcome to Psychology of Personality! • Please pick up a syllabus & index card from the front table and have a seat • On index card write: • Name, year & major • Psychology courses you have taken • Why you are taking this course • Something unusual/interesting about you

  2. First Day Outline • 1. Syllabus • 2. Names, etc. • 3. Chapter 1

  3. Personality Psychology An Introduction

  4. Why Study Personality? • Understand people (and ourselves) • Predict how they (we) will behave • Helps us function effectively • Personality psychologists ask similar Qs but use different methods • Less bias and error

  5. What is Personality? • Characteristics that account for consistent patterns of feeling, thinking, and behaving • Individual differences • Structure and process

  6. Personality Theory • Value of theory • Systematizes observations/findings • Predicts new effects • Good theory • Comprehensiveness (bandwidth & fidelity) • Parsimony • (# explained * importance) / # principles • Research relevance

  7. What, How & Why? • Structure (what?) • Traits and types • Process (why?) • Motivation (reduce tension v. self-actualize) • Growth & development (how?) • Nature and nurture • Change

  8. Important Issues • Internal v. external causes of behavior • Freud v. Skinner (Personality v. Social) • Consistency over time and situation • If not then what’s the use? • Cognition, affect and behavior • Which comes first?

  9. Next Class: • Read Pervin & John Chapter 2 • Research Methods

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