how would you describe your personality? a pattern of characteristic thinking, feeling and behaving...
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a pattern of characteristic thinking, feeling and behaving that distinguishes one person from another and is stable over time
What is personality?
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
Personality defined
Unconscious Sense of Identity Biology Conditioning and Learning Cognitive Traits and Skills Spirituality Interactions
Eight Keys
Feel… attraction towards another…
Think… it would be wrong to act on this…
Behave… approach and avoidance…
Three in conflict
http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/intro.asp
http://www.deeshan.com/horochin.htm
Personality Tests
grand theories◦ Freud, Millon
single dimensions◦ locus of control, extraversion
Ways to think about personality
Personality Psychology = the scientific study of the whole person in terms of species-typical characteristics and individual differences
The Role of Science
epistemology - the study of knowledge
rationalism = knowledge by exercising the mind
empiricism = one gains knowledge by sensory experience
Science?
1859 – Darwin 1880s – Galton 1900 – Freud 1906 – Pavlov 1917 – First self-report measure
A Brief History of Personality
1919 – John B. Watson 1910 to 1930s – Jung, Adler, Horney 1920s – Kurt Lewin 1930s – Henry Murray 1930s – B. F. Skinner 1930s – Margaret Mead
A Brief History of Personality
1930s – Allport 1940s – R. B. Cattell 1940s – Existential Psychology in US 1950s – Humanistic, Cognitive, Biological 1960s – Interactionist 1970s – Study of Gender Differences
A Brief History of Personality
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
A Brief History of Personality
anyone’s guess
Ideas move in a dialectical fashion
Current: empiricalFuture: the opposite of empirical
What is Next?