2. How would you describe your personality?

3. a pattern of characteristic thinking, feeling and behaving that distinguishes one person from another and is stable over time

4. scientific study of the whole person in terms of species-typical characteristics and individual differences species-typical characteristics concern how individuals are alike individual differences concerns how individuals are different

5.  Unconscious  Sense of Identity  Biology  Conditioning and Learning  Cognitive  Traits and Skills  Spirituality  Interactions

7. Feel… attraction towards another… Think… it would be wrong to act on this… Behave… approach and avoidance…

8. lots of definitions and conceptions 1) lay circles 2) pop psychology

9. Personality? extraverted and outgoing warm and engaging

10.  http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/intro.asp http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/intro.asp  http://www.deeshan.com/horochin.htm http://www.deeshan.com/horochin.htm

13. Nomothetic Ideographic

14. grand theories ◦ Freud, Millon single dimensions ◦ locus of control, extraversion

15. Important for a variety of reasons when working with others

16. Can personality change? Begin to stabilize?

17. The Grand Scheme sociology social psychology psychology (personality psychology) biology

18. Social Psychology Abnormal Psychology Development

20. Personality Psychology = the scientific study of the whole person in terms of species- typical characteristics and individual differences

21. epistemology - the study of knowledge rationalism = knowledge by exercising the mind empiricism = one gains knowledge by sensory experience

22. Induction – “bottom up” Deduction – “top down”

23. 1) Observation 2) Theory 3) Testing

24.  1859 – Darwin  1880s – Galton  1900 – Freud  1906 – Pavlov  1917 – First self-report measure

25.  1919 – John B. Watson  1910 to 1930s – Jung, Adler, Horney  1920s – Kurt Lewin  1930s – Henry Murray  1930s – B. F. Skinner  1930s – Margaret Mead

26.  1930s – Allport  1940s – R. B. Cattell  1940s – Existential Psychology in US  1950s – Humanistic, Cognitive, Biological  1960s – Interactionist  1970s – Study of Gender Differences

27.  1970s – Behaviorism begins to fade  1980s – Modern Interactionism  1980s – Evolutionary and Cultural Psychology  1990s – The Big Five  1990s – Theories become narrower  2000s – Neuroscience, Cognitive, Biological

28. anyone’s guess Ideas move in a dialectical fashion Current: empirical Future: the opposite of empirical

30. Self-report: S Data Peer-report: I Data Life outcomes: L Data Watch the person: B Data

31. Self-report “S Data” What person says about themselves Questionnaires Very common

32. Big Five

33. “S Data” Advantage ◦ Best Expert ◦ Cause of what you do ◦ Simple and easy

34. “S Data” Disadvantage ◦ 4 Sources of Distortion

35. Peer report I Data - “Informant”

36. 2) Peer report Advantage ◦ Objectivity

37. Peer report Disadvantages Problem with closeness leniency or harshness effect

38. Life Outcomes L Data How much money? Arrested? Graduate?

39. Life Outcomes Advantage ◦ Objective ◦ Exactly what we study ◦ Link to psych variables

40. Life Outcomes Disadvantage ◦ Behavior is multi-determined

41. Direct Observation B Data Natural Observation

42. “B Data” Advantage ◦ Objective ◦ Quantifiable ◦ Natural actions

43. “B Data” Disadvantage ◦ Hawthorne Effect ◦ Bias

44. Person S Data L Data B Data I Data Self-report Life Outcomes Peer Report Behavioral Data