1what are the three levels of analyisis ?
1. huan nature
2. individual and group differences
3. individual uniqueness
2what are the two traditions in personality psychology ?
nomothetic and idiographic
3what is nomothetic ?
relating to the study or discovery of general scientific laws
4what is idiographic ?
relating to the study or discovery of particular scientific facts and processes, as distinct from general laws
5wat is the first level of analyisis ?
human nature : how people are like all other people ?
6how can we relate the first level of analysis to animals ?
animals have characteristics as well ( doplhins proven to have personality
7what is the second level of analyisis?
individual and group differences : ho are people like other people
gender differences → sam eand different
8what is the third level of analyisis ?
individual uniqueness → how people are like no other people
how do people show thir love
9what are the two assumption theories ?
entitiy theory and increental theory
10what is the entitiy theory ?
human traits ( like personality ) are fixed and cannot be changes nature beliefs
11what is the incremetal theory ?
human traits are not fixed but are maleable to a great extent nurture beliefs
12according to which psychologist is personality not existing ?
Walter Mischel
13why does Walter Michel consider peronality non existent ?
very weak realtions between individual behaviour in one situation compared to another situation
no concsitency in a person's consciencious behaviour in different situations
14what study din Walter Mich conduct to conclude his hypothesis ?
cross situational consistency of consciourness ( attendence , completion of reading, punctuality etc) → correlation .13
15what makes us who we are ?
psycological and physiological diffeences
16what are psychological differeneces ?
intelectual and non intelectual differences
17what are some non intelctual differences?
fleeting ( emotions and feelings ) & enduring ( specific : habits, attitudes or general:personlaity )
18what are general enduring non intelectual psychological individual differences ?
temperament , personality, charcater, ceativity , IQ and talent
19what are specific enduring non intelectual psychological individual differences ?
habits , attitudes, preferences, ideas , emotions , competencies and skills
20what is perosnality ?
Personality is the set of traits and mechanisms within the individual that are organized and relatively enduring and that influence ones interactions with , and adaptations to , the intrapsychic, physical and social environment
21what are psychological set of traits ?
describes ways in which people differ form one another
22what are mechanism ?
processes of personality
23what are the six domains of knowledge ?
1. dispositional
2. biological
3. intrapsychic
4. cognitive experimental
5. social and cultural
6. adjustmet
24what is the dispositional domain ?
personal traits or fire
25what is the biological domain ?
biological events
26what is the intrapsychic domain ?
processes in the person's mind
27what is the cognitive experimental ?
toughts , feelings and desires
28what is the social and cultural domain ?
environemnt
29what is the adjustment domain ?
adaptations and interactions
30what is the reanalisiy of Walter Miche by Jakson Pannonen ?
based on one behaviour , other behaviour is difficult to predict
based on a nr of behaviours, it is possible to predict how someone hevaes on averege in a number of other situations