Personality Psychology Chapter one

trait-descriptive adjectives

Personality

Psychological Traits

average tendencies

research looks at what 4 questions

3 reasons of usefulness for personality traits

personality is

psychological mechanisms

psychological mechanisms: 3 ingredients

within the individual

Organized

what is organized?

psychological traits are_______ over time, particularly in adulthood

influential forces

person-environment interaction

perception

selection

Evocations

Manipulations

adaptions

environment

Intrapsychic

3 levels of personality
Kluckhohn +Murray

human nature

individual differences

differences among groups

nomothetic

Idiographic

grand theories of personality

domain of knowledge

researchers have developed:

6 domains of knowledge about human nature

within each domain of personality: 2 elements

dispositional domain

biological domain

3 areas if biological domain

Intrapsychic domain

cognitive-experimental domain

social/cultural domain

Adjustment domain

a Good Theory
has 3 purposes

theories

beliefs

5 scientific standards for evaluating personality theories

comprehensiveness

heuristic value

testability

parsimony

compatibility and integration across domains/levels

grand unifying theory
Darwin

grand unifying theory