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Psychology of Personality - Summary

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This summary follows the structure of the book "Personality Psychology. Domains of knowledge about human nature" but also contains important information from the lectures, that wasn't included in the book. All chapters except for 9, 12 and 17 are covered (those weren't relevant for my exam).

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Chapters 1-8, 10,11, 13-16, 18,19
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describing differences and relating them

:



interpersonal
→ intra personal


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multiple types of differences at different levels

=D describe relationship between differences
Los self esteem and
e.
g .
.


aggression


types of differences





→ traits

→ motives

D emotions ( positive , negative ; durations ,
fluctuations )
→ self



inter individual differences C between individuals )







intergroup differences C between groups )
LD
types of possible
many groups
intra individual differences C within individuals )





↳ situation , time ,
etc .





inter individual differences in intraindivi dual differences
I individuals

comparing consistency changes within

between different individuals


°
explanation of differences

proximal explanation
↳ factors that co
-
occur in time with the

Phenomena you want to explain



distal explanations
↳ factors that are further away in time

↳ e.g .
past or evolutionary past

,• the
history of
personality psychology

-
D descriptions in ancient Greece
-
D tests in China




Theophrastus C 327 BC -
287 BC )
↳ student of Plato
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↳ collection of personality sketches C Characters =




personality types )

primitive description of personality traits I types

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→ ng century
b Galton ,
Cattell
→ individual differences
↳ Binet
-
D Stanford -

Binet test
↳ William James , Sigmund Freud

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→ 1937 : Gordon Allport

starting point
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TRAIT -
DESCRIPTIVE ADJECTIVES
~
Adjectives that can be used to describe characteristics

of people .





they refer to different aspects of people ( e.g their inner
-



.




qualities ,
their effect on other people ,
their relation to

others ,
etc .
)

PERSONALITY
~
Personality is the set of psychological traits and mechanisms
within the individual that are organized and relatively
interactions
enduring and that influence his or her

with
,
and adaptions to , the intrapsyohic , physical and
Social environment .




PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAITS

Characteristics that describe people
~
ways in which are

different from each other .




-

• traits describe the average tendencies of a person




How traits are there ?
many



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How the ?
traits organized
°

are
out .


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Personality is useful in
describing .


explaining and


predicting differences between individuals .




PSYCHOLOGICAL MECHANISMS

Psychological like traits but refer
~
mechanisms are ,
more

to of
the
processes personality .




No
inputs ,
decision rules and Outputs
b.
key elements of a psychological mechanism

, WITHIN THE INDIVIDUAL


Personality herself
~
with
is
something a person carries him or

Over time and from one situation to the next .




ORGANIZED

~
The psychological traits and mechanisms ,
for a given
person ,
are not simply a random collection of elements .




Personality is organized because the mechanisms and

traits are linked to one another in a coherent fashion .




ENDURING
~
Psychological traits are relatively enduring over time ,



particularly in adulthood , and are somewhat

consistent over situations .




Be some situations be overpowering and suppress
-



may
the of traits
expression psychological

INFLUENT AL FORCES
~
Personality traits and mechanisms can have an effect

on people 's lives Personality influences how we act ,
.




how we view ourselves ,
how we think about the world
,

how we interact with others ,
how we feel ,
how we

select our Social ) environment , what goals and

desires we pursue in life and how we react to our

circumstances .




PERSON -
ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION
~
Interactions with situations include perceptions . selections ,


evocations and manipulations .
Two people may be

exposed to the same objective event ,
yet what they
pay attention to and how they interpret the event

may be very different .





perceptions how interpret the environment
-



: we see and

selections i the manner in which we choose situations to enter

evocations :
the reactions we produce in others

manipulations the in which intentionally attempt to
:
ways we
influence others
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