{"id":4405,"date":"2018-09-21T19:38:04","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T23:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/?p=4405"},"modified":"2019-05-25T23:33:43","modified_gmt":"2019-05-26T03:33:43","slug":"psychology-of-personality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/personality\/psychology-of-personality\/","title":{"rendered":"Psychology of Personality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Six domains of knowledge in the book:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Traits<\/p>\n<p><em>How do people differ?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 tiology<\/p>\n<p><em>How do biologicdl fdctors dnd processes determine behdvior, thoughts dnd emotions? Psychophysiology dnd genetics.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Psychic factors and motives <em>Intrdpsychic<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Wishes, goals, experiences, self-concept <\/strong><em>How do we see ourselves?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Social positions, relations, culture<\/p>\n<p><em>Persondlity influences dnd is influenced by the socidl dnd culturdl environment.<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Disorders and adjustments to stress and challenges. <\/strong><em>How do we ddjust to certdin chdllenging situdtions?<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The big five of personality psychology:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Extraversion<\/li>\n<li>Agreeableness<\/li>\n<li>Conscientiousness<\/li>\n<li>Neuroticism<\/li>\n<li>Openness<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Personality Psychology = <\/strong>The psychology of differences between people<\/p>\n<p>Interpersonal = between people<\/p>\n<p>Intrapersonal = within people<\/p>\n<h3>Differences between individuals = Interindividual differences Differences between groups = Intergroup differences Difference within individuals = Intraindividual differences<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Differences within individuals between individuals =<\/strong> Interindividual differences in intraindividual differences<\/p>\n<p><strong>Proximal explanations =<\/strong> Factors that co-occur in time with the phenomena you\u2019re trying to explain.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Distal explanations =<\/strong> Factors that are further away in time (in an individual past or even in a way further evolutionary past.<\/p>\n<h1>A Buick history<\/h1>\n<p>Theophrastus (327-287 BC) was a student of Plato who made a collection of personality sketches \u2018personality types\u2019. He made primitive descriptions of personality traits.<\/p>\n<p>In the 19<sup>th<\/sup> century the interest was renewed. Francis Galton and James Mckeen Cattell were two people who were interested in personality psychology. They primarily used sensorimotor tasks.<\/p>\n<p>Alfred Binet said that the individual differences in higher order processes are stronger than those in elementary sensorimotor tasks. Binet also developed an IQ-test called the StanfordBinet test.<\/p>\n<p><em>3 steps to studying individudl differences in chdrdcter:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>William James and Sigmund Freud had ideas but no empirical research.<\/li>\n<li>WW1: The detection of \u2018combat stress\u2019 during recruitment.<\/li>\n<li>1932: The scientific journal <em>\u2018Chdrdcter dnd Persondlity\u2019<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The real starting point of Personality Psychology however was in 1937, when \u2018Personality, a Psychological Interpretation\u2019 by Gordon Allport was published.<\/p>\n<p><u>Chapter 1 Introduction to Personality Psychology<\/u><\/p>\n<p><strong>Personality = <\/strong>The set of psychological traits and mechanisms within the individual that is organized, relatively enduring and that influences his or her interactions with, and adaptations to, the environment (including the intrapsychic, physical and social environment).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mechanisms:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Input \uf0e0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rule \uf0e0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Output<\/p>\n<p>The traits and mechanisms are organized because they\u2019re linked in a coherent fashion and not random.<\/p>\n<p>Three layers of personality:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The human race<\/li>\n<li>Individual\/group differences<\/li>\n<li>Individual uniqueness<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Personality is comprehensive but a comprehensive theory is not yet there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six domains of knowledge in the book: &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Traits How do people differ? &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 tiology How do biologicdl fdctors dnd processes determine behdvior, thoughts dnd emotions? Psychophysiology dnd genetics.&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/personality\/psychology-of-personality\/\">Continue Reading<span> Psychology of Personality<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[111],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4405"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4405"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4845,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4405\/revisions\/4845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}