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Personality Psychologist

Personality Psychologist . By Joe Oddo. Overview . A personality psychologist studies peoples behavior. He/she draws conclusions from studying them in sessions. About the job.

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Personality Psychologist

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  1. Personality Psychologist By Joe Oddo

  2. Overview • A personality psychologist studies peoples behavior. • He/she draws conclusions from studying them in sessions

  3. About the job • Most conduct studies of peoples behavior by allowing them to sit on a couch and basically just talk to the psychologist • Sigmund Freud was a master of this type of observing, and helped so many people by diagnosing problems from the knowledge he gathered • They research and try to point out different ways people act because of what they have experienced in the past or recent times

  4. Personality Theories • Trait Theories • Enduring patterns of perceiving, relating to, and thinking about the environment • These base their social and personal contexts • Traits are stable over time • Traits differ among individuals • Traits influence behavior • Type theories • Refers to the classification of different types of people • Introvert is one type and those people will be more kempt to themselves • Extroverts is the other and they are more of an outgoing type

  5. Personality cont. • Psychoanalytic • describe human behavior personality • Id: pleasure principle of human nature • Ego: meeting wishes and demands of the outside world • Super-ego: implicates social rules and judgment upon ego

  6. Continued more. • Behavior theory • Studied the affects of external stimuli have on people • Emphasize upon mutual interaction between organisms • Social cognitive theory • Behavior is explained by expectations of the world

  7. education • You need a basic Bachelors degree to begin earning high grades as an undergrad. • Then you would need to take Psychology classes to get your Masters • Next you must go to school for 4-5 years to get your doctorate • lastly, to practice psychology, you need to have a license in the state

  8. discography • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality_psychology#Trait_theories • http://education-portal.com/articles/Personality_Psychologist_Job_Description_and_Education_Information.html

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