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Copyright 2007 Allyn & Bacon Mayers Personality: A Systems Approach

PART 1: EXPLORING PERSONALITY CHAPTER 1: WHAT IS PERSONALITY?

What is Personality?

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Topics Covered

Questions of Personality

What Is the Personality System? What Is the Field of Personality

Psychology?

Why Study Personality? How Is this Course Organized?


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Fundamental Questions of Personality



What Are Your Questions?

What Have You

Wondered About

Yourself? What Have You

Wondered About

Others?

What Is Personality to

You?


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Three Big Questions1. Who Am I?

3. What is My Future?2. How Do People Differ?

These inter-related questions (and others) tie ancient

philosophy to contemporary personality psychology


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How and Why are People Different? Origins

Characterology: The literary study of different

personalities Theophrastus: The flatterer is a person who will say as hewalks with another, Do you observe how others are lookingat you? This happens to no man in Athens but you.

Theophrastus (again): The Garrulous man is one that will sitdown close beside somebody he does not know, and begin

talk with a eulogy of his own life, and then relate a dream hehad the night before, and after that tell dish by dish what hehad for supper. As he warms to his work he will remark thatwe are by no means the men we were, and there is a newship in town, and(description continues in orig.)


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How and Why are People Different? (Cont.)

Origins (Continued)

Humoural Theory: The attempt to find biological

bases for individual differences Developed by Hippocrates; Galen

Four Types

Sanguine (even-tempered; blood)

Choleric (irritable; yellow-bile Melancholic (depressed; black bile)

Phlegmatic (low energy; phlegm).


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Contemporary

Assessment of personality

Mental measurement

The study of individual differences

How and Why are People Different? (Cont.)


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What Will My Future Be?

Origins

Since the ancient oracle at Delphi, people

have wondered about their futures

Contemporary

Personality psychology tells us

given characteristic, x

how will x influence life outcomes?


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What Is the Personality System?



Wundts Views: Psychologys Job

Wilhelm Wundt: Founder of experimental

psychology

The discipline of psychology studies

various mental systems one by one

Sensation

Perception

Memory

Etc.


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Wundts Views: Personalitys Job

Personality

Sensation

and

Perception

Motives

and

Emotion

Emotion

and

Cognition

Sensation Perception Memory Emotion CognitionConscious-

ness


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Analyzing Wundts Conception

Personality is a system

A system is a set of

interrelated parts.

Examples of systems:

The jewelry organizer

(top, right)

A boiler (to right)

Personality


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Definition of PersonalityPersonality is the

organized,

developing, systemwithin the individual

that represents the

collective action of

that individualsmajor psychological

subsystems.

Self

Control

Action

Implementation

Motives and

Emotions

Knowledge

Guidance

Some Psychological Systems


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The Molecular Molar ContinuumMolar Sociology

Psychology

Biology

Chemistry

Molecular Physics

PART EXPLORING PERSONALITY CHAPTER WHAT IS PERSONALITY?


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Personality Amidst Its SubsystemsSocio-logicalLevel

Groups Including or Interactingwith Personality

Psycho-logical/Sym-bolicLevel

InternalPersonality

ExternalSituation

Bio-logicalLevel

Nervous System SituationalElements

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What Is the Field of Personality Psychology?



Occupations

contributing topersonality

psychology

Comparative

biologists

Researchers in

artificial

intelligence

Educational

psychologists

studyinglearning

styles

Human

resource

personnel

studying job

performance

Psycho-

therapists

interested inpersonality

psychology

Professors

who teach

personality

psychology



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What Is the Field of Personality Psychology?



Most Common Training Programs Central Training

Ph.D. programs in Personality

Ph.D. programs in Personality and Social Psychology

Related Training

Ph.D. programs in Clinical and CounselingPsychology

M.B.A. & Ph.D. programs in Organizational Behavior

M.D. programs in Psychiatry

Ed.D. programs in Educational Psychology



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Why Study Personality Psychology?



Rationale for Studying Personality Psychology

Knowledge for knowledges sake

Applications to assessment

Applications to prediction and selection

Applications to change


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How Is This Course Organized?



The Four Topics of this Course The four topics follow the systems framework for personality

psychology The four topics:

1. Identifying the personality system Introduction

Theory and research

2. Parts of personality Here, you may feel interestedbut frustrated by fragmentation

Many small parts to cover

3. Personality organization

We will pull the parts together by examining structure Look at dynamics

4. Personality development Provides a second way to pull together what we have learned

Speaks to a persons past and future



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How Is This Course Organized?


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