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Lecture 2 Notes Personality

This document summarizes key concepts related to personality and individual differences. It discusses major theories of personality including traits, psychoanalytic approaches, and social learning. It also covers models of identity formation, Holland's career theory and the RIASEC model. Additional sections outline factors that can lead to differences between individuals like gender, appearance and abilities. The document concludes by introducing the Big Five model of personality traits and discussing correlation and attribution theory.

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Lecture 2 Notes Personality

This document summarizes key concepts related to personality and individual differences. It discusses major theories of personality including traits, psychoanalytic approaches, and social learning. It also covers models of identity formation, Holland's career theory and the RIASEC model. Additional sections outline factors that can lead to differences between individuals like gender, appearance and abilities. The document concludes by introducing the Big Five model of personality traits and discussing correlation and attribution theory.

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LECTURE 2 NOTES

PERSONALITY
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Traits, factors (Cattell, Eysenck)


Psycho-dynamic (Freud, Jung)
Social Learning
Humanistic

IDENTITY
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Personal
Social (Giddens)

WORKPLACE
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Career (Holland)
RIASEC Model
o People have prefernces that form hexagon and characteristics next
to each other on the hexagon occur together and ones opposite are
less likely to occur together

HOW DO PEOPLE DIFFER?


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Gender
Appearance
Personality
Social background
Ethnic background
Religion
Responsibilities
Skills
Experience
Interests
Ability

ABILITIES
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Mental abilities e.g. numerical, verbal, spatial, problem solving, concrete,


fluid
Physical Abilities
Specific Intelligence ROBERT STERNBERG TRIARCHIC THEORY
o Not just analytical skills, but creativity, innovation etc
o Recognises some people are very bright but very stupid e.g.
streetwise, common sense
Current ability future ability?
Competences
Measurement

PERSONALITY

Consists of any characteristic pattern of behaviour, though or emotional


experience
Disposition- stability and consistency over time

BIG FIVE - OCEAN


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Suggests we can describe peoples behaviour based on 5 characteristics


1) Openess to experience
2) Conscientiousness
3) Extraversion
4) Agreeableness
5) Neuroticism
Factors are relatively separate, not well correlated

CORRELATION
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The measure of the relationship between 2 variable


o 1 = perfect relationship
o -1 = perfect ve relationship
o 0= no correlation

correlation2 = percentage of variance

PERCEPTION
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Attribution theory (HEIDER)

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