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| The scientific study of the psychological forces that make people uniquely themselves |
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| The use of systematically gathered evidence to test theories |
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| A mathematical index of the degree of agreement or association between two measures |
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| An approach to psychology in which the conclusions follow logically from the premises or assumptions |
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| an approach to pschology in which observations are systematically collelcted and concepts are developed based on what the data reveal |
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| The philosophical idea that there is no underlying self but that the true self is composed merely of masks |
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| The theory in which individual characteristics that enable an organism to pass on genes to offspring become more prevalent in the population over generations |
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| Seeking to formulate laws |
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| Involved int he study of individual cases |
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| Authoritarian personality |
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| A person with anti-democratic tendencies; such a person tends to be narrow-minded, rigid, defensive, and tends to show prejudice against minority groups. |
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| The tendency to believe in the accuracy of vague generalities about one's personality. |
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| KNOW personality psychology, deductive versus inductive approach to personality, |
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| Eight perspectives on personality: |
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| Psyschoanalytic, Neo-analytic/Ego, Biological, Cognitive, Trait, Humanistic/Existential, Interactionist |
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| AOP: Attention to unconscious influences; importance of sexual drives even in nonsexual spheres |
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| AOP: Emphasis on the self as it struggles to cope with emotions and drives on the inside and the demands of others on the outside. |
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| AOP: Focuses on tendencies and limits imposed by biological inheritance; can be easily combined with most other approaches |
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| AOP: Can force a more scientific analysis of the learning experiences that shape personality |
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| AOP: Captures active nature of human thought; uses modern knowledge from cognitive psychology |
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| AOP: Good individual assessment techniques |
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| AOP: appreciates the spiritual nature of a person; emphasizes struggles for self-fulfillment and dignity |
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| AOP: Understands that we are different selves in diff situations |
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