Study of Personality

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Study of Personality

• Mr. Bertani
• Ch.1 What is Psychology? (Check the board)

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Disappearing Definition

• PERSONALITY- The distinct patterns of behavior,
  including thoughts and feelings, that
  characterize a persons adaptation to life.

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• PERSONALITY- The distinct patterns of ________,
  including thoughts and feelings, that
  characterize a persons adaptation to life.

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• PERSONALITY- The distinct patterns of ________,
  including thoughts and feelings, that
  characterize a _______ adaptation to life.

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• PERSONALITY- The distinct patterns of ________,
  including thoughts and feelings, that
  characterize a _______ __________ to life.

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• PERSONALITY- The distinct patterns of ________,
  including ________ and feelings, that
  characterize a _______ __________ to life.

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• PERSONALITY- The distinct patterns of ________,
  including ________ and feelings, ____
  characterize a _______ __________ to life.

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• PERSONALITY- The distinct ________ of ________,
  including ________ and feelings, ____
  characterize a _______ __________ to life.

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• PERSONALITY- The distinct ________ of ________,
  including ________ and feelings, ____
  characterize a _______ __________ to____.

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• PERSONALITY- The distinct ________ of ________,
  including ________ and________, ____ characterize
  a _______ __________ to____.

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• PERSONALITY- The ________ ________ of ________,
  including ________ and________, ____ characterize
  a _______ __________ to____.

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• PERSONALITY- The ________ ________ of ________,
  including ________ and________, ____ ____________
  a _______ __________ to____.

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• PERSONALITY- The ________ ________ of ________,
  _________ ________ and________, ____ ____________
  a _______ __________ to____.

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• PERSONALITY- The ________ ________ of ________,
  _________ ________ ___ ________, ____
  ____________ _ _______ __________ to____.

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• PERSONALITY- The ________ ________ __ ________,
  _________ ________ ___ ________, ____
  ____________ _ _______ __________ __ ____.

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• PERSONALITY- ___ ________ ________ __ ________,
  _________ ________ ___ ________, ____
  ____________ _ _______ __________ __ ____.

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• ___________- ___ ________ ______ __ ________,
  _________ ________ ___ ________, ____
  ____________ _ _______ __________ __ ____.

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NOW you can write it in your notebook!
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• PERSONALITY- The distinct patterns of behavior,
  including thoughts and feelings, that
  characterize a persons adaptation to life.

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Related Questions Answers
How do we study personalities?
PSYCHOLOGY- The science that studies behavior and
mental processes.
Who studies personalities?
PSYCHOLOGIST- A person trained as a professional
in science of psychology
PSYCHIATRIST- A medical doctor who specializes in
the study and treatment of psychological disorders
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What are their goals?

• DESCRIPTION- Gather information and find facts

2. EXPLANATION- Create hypotheses, research and
test the hypotheses, and construct theories

• PREDICTION - What will an organism do?
• What will it think or feel?

4. CONTROL - Seek to influence or control
behavior in helpful ways
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FIELDS OF PSYCHOLOGY (pages 4-8 table 1.1)

• A. study relationships between people and
  work/focus on behavior of shoppers
• B. help identify and assist students who
  encounter problems that interfere with
  learning/focus on improvement of course planning
  and instructional methods
• C. define and examine human traits
• D. study how behavior and mental processes are
  related to physical well being
• E. study the physical, cognitive, moral, social,
  emotional changes that occur throughout the
  life span
• F. study overt behavior in social situations
• G. assist in the criminal justice system
• H. study the effects of the physical environment
  on people
• I. engage in pure research
• J. help people with problems by evaluating
  patients through structured interviews and
  psychological tests

• 1. Clinical Counseling
• 2. School Educational
• 3. Developmental
• 4. Personality
• 5. Social
• 6. Environmental
• 7. Experimental
• 8. Industrial, Organizational, Consumer
• 9. Forensic
• 10. Health

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Contemporary Perspectives in Psychology
Biological
Psychodynamic
Humanistic
Cognitive
Learning
Sociocultural
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Biological

• Relate behavior to events taking place inside the
  body, particularly within the brain and central
  nervous system

• A psychologist would be interested in changes
  that take place in the nervous system as the
  result of learning a new task

• Electrical stimulation of certain areas of the
  human brain will produce sensations of pleasure
  pain and even vivid memories of past events

• A chemical substance that promotes development of
  body structures and regulates various body
  functions

• Genes - the basic building blocks of heredity

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Cognitive

• The mental processes of perception, memory, and
  information processing by which the individual
  acquires knowledge, solves problems, plans for
  the future

• The mind actively processes information it
  receives and transforms it

• Incoming information is processed in various
  ways it is selected, compared, and combined with
  other information already in memory, transformed,
  rearranged, and so on

• Investigation centers on the way in which we
  perceive and mentally represent the world

• The mind

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Humanistic

• Free will vs. determinism

• Psychologists would be interested in a persons
  self-concept, feelings of self-esteem and
  self-awareness

• The pursuit of self-actualization

• A psychologist considers the persons experience,
  as perceived by that person, to be the most
  important event in psychology

• Development of the self to the fullest potential

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Learning

• A psychologist studies individuals by looking at
  their behavior rather than at their internal
  workings

• John B. Watson argued that only you can
  introspect about your perceptions and feelings,
  but others can observe your behavior

• Stimulus ?Response (S ?R) Psychologists maintain
  that a science of psychology can be based
  strictly on what goes in and what comes out
  (input ?output)

• Learn by rewards and punishments (reinforcement)

• Learn by observation

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Psychodynamic
Behavior stems from processes that are unconscious
Focus of todays neoanalysts concentrates on
deliberate choice
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Sociocultural

• Ethnicity
• Gender
• Culture
• Socioeconomic status

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Study of Personality

• Mr. Bertani
• Ch.1 What is Psychology? (Check the board)

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• PERSONALITY- The distinct patterns of behavior,
  including thoughts and feelings, that
  characterize a persons adaptation to life.

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Related Questions Answers
How do we study personalities?
PSYCHOLOGY- The science that studies behavior and
mental processes.
Who studies personalities?
PSYCHOLOGIST- A person trained as a professional
in science of psychology
PSYCHIATRIST- A medical doctor who specializes in
the study and treatment of psychological disorders
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What are their goals?

• DESCRIPTION- Gather information and find facts

2. EXPLANATION- Create hypotheses, research and
test the hypotheses, and construct theories

• PREDICTION - What will an organism do?
• What will it think or feel?

4. CONTROL - Seek to influence or control
behavior in helpful ways
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FIELDS OF PSYCHOLOGY (pages 4-8 table 1.1)

• A. study relationships between people and
  work/focus on behavior of shoppers
• B. help identify and assist students who
  encounter problems that interfere with
  learning/focus on improvement of course planning
  and instructional methods
• C. define and examine human traits
• D. study how behavior and mental processes are
  related to physical well being
• E. study the physical, cognitive, moral, social,
  emotional changes that occur throughout the
  life span
• F. study overt behavior in social situations
• G. assist in the criminal justice system
• H. study the effects of the physical environment
  on people
• I. engage in pure research
• J. help people with problems by evaluating
  patients through structured interviews and
  psychological tests

• 1. Clinical Counseling
• 2. School Educational
• 3. Developmental
• 4. Personality
• 5. Social
• 6. Environmental
• 7. Experimental
• 8. Industrial, Organizational, Consumer
• 9. Forensic
• 10. Health

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Contemporary Perspectives in Psychology
Biological
Psychodynamic
Humanistic
Cognitive
Learning
Sociocultural
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Biological

• Relate behavior to events taking place inside the
  body, particularly within the brain and central
  nervous system

• A psychologist would be interested in changes
  that take place in the nervous system as the
  result of learning a new task

• Electrical stimulation of certain areas of the
  human brain will produce sensations of pleasure
  pain and even vivid memories of past events

• A chemical substance that promotes development of
  body structures and regulates various body
  functions

• Genes - the basic building blocks of heredity

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Cognitive

• The mental processes of perception, memory, and
  information processing by which the individual
  acquires knowledge, solves problems, plans for
  the future

• The mind actively processes information it
  receives and transforms it

• Incoming information is processed in various
  ways it is selected, compared, and combined with
  other information already in memory, transformed,
  rearranged, and so on

• Investigation centers on the way in which we
  perceive and mentally represent the world

• The mind

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Humanistic

• Free will vs. determinism

• Psychologists would be interested in a persons
  self-concept, feelings of self-esteem and
  self-awareness

• The pursuit of self-actualization

• A psychologist considers the persons experience,
  as perceived by that person, to be the most
  important event in psychology

• Development of the self to the fullest potential

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Learning

• A psychologist studies individuals by looking at
  their behavior rather than at their internal
  workings

• John B. Watson argued that only you can
  introspect about your perceptions and feelings,
  but others can observe your behavior

• Stimulus ?Response (S ?R) Psychologists maintain
  that a science of psychology can be based
  strictly on what goes in and what comes out
  (input ?output)

• Learn by rewards and punishments (reinforcement)

• Learn by observation

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Psychodynamic
Behavior stems from processes that are unconscious
Focus of todays neoanalysts concentrates on
deliberate choice
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Sociocultural

• Ethnicity
• Gender
• Culture
• Socioeconomic status

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