The Study of Personality

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Course Outline

  1. Personality and the Psychological Triad
  2. The Mission of Personality Psychology
  3. Uses of Personality Psychology
  4. Major Personality Approaches
  5. Learning and Social Learning Approaches
  6. Complementary Approaches and One Big Theory
  7. Individual Differences and Tradeoffs

1. Personality and the Psychological Triad

Key Concepts & Definitions

  • Personality: An individual’s characteristic patterns of thought, emotion, and behavior, together with the psychological mechanisms behind those patterns

★ Must-know

📌 Thought concerns how people think, emotion concerns what people feel, and behavior concerns how people behave.

  • Personality psychology studies whole, functioning individuals in their daily environments through the psychological triad of thought, emotion, and behavior.

Further detail

  • Inconsistencies between thoughts, emotions, and behaviors are common in human psychology.

Memory Hook

TEB: Thought, Emotion, Behavior

2. The Mission of Personality Psychology

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Practice quiz preview

1. Which pairing correctly distinguishes the three domains of the psychological triad?

2. Which topic would be the central concern of the psychoanalytic approach?

3. What is the intended purpose of One Big Theory in personality psychology?

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What does personality consist of?

Characteristic patterns of thought, emotion, behavior, and their psychological mechanisms.

What does personality psychology study?

Whole, functioning individuals in their daily environments.

Which three components form the psychological triad?

Thought, emotion, and behavior.

What does thought concern in psychology?

How people think.

What does emotion concern in psychology?

What people feel.

What does behavior concern in psychology?

How people behave.

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