Ppe300 - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Know the definition of personality discussed in class.A patterning of dispositional traits, characteristic adaptations, and integrative life stories set in culture and shaped by human evolution What is the difference between personality traits and characteristic adaptations?- characteristic adaptations: The DETAILS of personality What are the main differences between personality psychology and the other related fields within psychology? Be able to recognize an example of a case study.

What is Personality?A patterning of dispositional traits, characteristic adaptations, and integrative life stories set in culture and shaped by human evolution. Difference between Personality Traits and Characteristic AdaptationsCharacteristic Adaptations are the details of personality; aspects of psychological individuality that are contextualized in time, place, and / or role. Personality Psychology differences from other fieldsDevelopmental Psychology: Change over time (DP) vs. some...

2 necessities for consideration of a stressful eventPrimary: perceiving event as a threat to your goals secondary: feelings like you won't be able to cope with an event (without both, no stress) event threatening+can't cope= stress 3 categories1) Cluster A, ECCENTRIC: odd, socially detached 2) Cluster B, ERRATIC: dramatic, emotional (unpredictable and violent) 3) Cluster C, Anxious: Fearful 3 major approaches- evoked culture - transmitted culture - cultural universals

Chumshipderived from the sociological concept of the social self that a preadolescents chums serve as a social mirror for forming his or her identity interpersonal theory of psychiatryHarry Stack Sullivan's approach to personality that focuses on the recurring social situations faced by an individual social selfGeorge Mead's idea that your concept of self as developed through your personal, social interactions with others illusion of individualityAcording to Harry Stach Sulivan, the i...

Know the definition of personality discussed in class.A patterning of dispositional traits, characteristic adaptations, and integrative life stories set in culture and shaped by human evolution What is the difference between personality traits and characteristic adaptations?- characteristic adaptations: The DETAILS of personality What are the main differences between personality psychology and the other related fields within psychology? Be able to recognize an example of a case study....

2 necessities for consideration of a stressful eventPrimary: perceiving event as a threat to your goals secondary: feelings like you won't be able to cope with an event (without both, no stress) event threatening+can't cope= stress 3 categories1) Cluster A, ECCENTRIC: odd, socially detached 2) Cluster B, ERRATIC: dramatic, emotional (unpredictable and violent) 3) Cluster C, Anxious: Fearful 3 major approaches- evoked culture - transmitted culture - cultural universals

What is Personality?A patterning of dispositional traits, characteristic adaptations, and integrative life stories set in culture and shaped by human evolution. Difference between Personality Traits and Characteristic AdaptationsCharacteristic Adaptations are the details of personality; aspects of psychological individuality that are contextualized in time, place, and / or role. Personality Psychology differences from other fieldsDevelopmental Psychology: Change over time (DP) vs. some...

Chumshipderived from the sociological concept of the social self that a preadolescents chums serve as a social mirror for forming his or her identity interpersonal theory of psychiatryHarry Stack Sullivan's approach to personality that focuses on the recurring social situations faced by an individual social selfGeorge Mead's idea that your concept of self as developed through your personal, social interactions with others illusion of individualityAcording to Harry Stach Sulivan, the i...