PART 1 EXPLORING PERSONALITY CHAPTER 1 WHAT IS

PART 1: EXPLORING PERSONALITY CHAPTER 1: WHAT IS PERSONALITY? What – And Where – Is Personality? What – and Where – is Personality? Theme and Variation on Topic 1. What is Personality? This multimedia product and its contents are protected under copyright law. The following are prohibited by law: • any public performance or display, including transmission of any image over a network; • preparation of any derivative work, including the extraction, in whole or in part, of any image; • any rental, lease, or lending of the program. Copyright © 2007 Allyn & Bacon Mayer’s Personality: A Systems Approach

PART 1: EXPLORING PERSONALITY CHAPTER 1: WHAT IS PERSONALITY? What – And Where – Is Personality? The Lecture and the Book… • Chapter 1: What Is Personality? 1. What are the Fundamental Questions…? 2. What is the Personality System? 3. What is the Field of Personality? 4. Why Study Personality? Copyright © 2007 Allyn & Bacon Mayer’s Personality: A Systems Approach • Lecture 1: What – And Where – Is Personality? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Fundamental Questions An Historical view Defining personality Locating personality Who Are Personality Psychologists? 6. (If time) Why Study Personality?

PART 1: EXPLORING PERSONALITY CHAPTER 1: WHAT IS PERSONALITY? What – And Where – Is Personality? What Are Your Questions? • What Have You Wondered About Yourself? • What Have You Wondered About Others? • What Is Personality to You? Copyright © 2007 Allyn & Bacon Mayer’s Personality: A Systems Approach

PART 1: EXPLORING PERSONALITY CHAPTER 1: WHAT IS PERSONALITY? What – And Where – Is Personality? Three Big Questions 1. Who Am I? 2. How Do People Differ? 3. What is My Future? These inter-related questions (and others) tie ancient philosophy to contemporary personality psychology Copyright © 2007 Allyn & Bacon Mayer’s Personality: A Systems Approach

PART 1: EXPLORING PERSONALITY CHAPTER 1: WHAT IS PERSONALITY? What – And Where – Is Personality? Wundt’s Views: Psychology’s Job • Wilhelm Wundt – Founder of experimental psychology – Believed that the discipline of psychology studies various mental systems one by one • • Sensation Perception Memory Etc. • Wundt saw personality as the system of those individual parts Copyright © 2007 Allyn & Bacon Mayer’s Personality: A Systems Approach

PART 1: EXPLORING PERSONALITY CHAPTER 1: WHAT IS PERSONALITY? What – And Where – Is Personality? Wundt’s Views: Personality’s Job Personality Sensation and Perception Sensation Copyright © 2007 Allyn & Bacon Perception Motives and Emotion Memory Mayer’s Personality: A Systems Approach Emotion and Cognition Consciousness

PART 1: EXPLORING PERSONALITY CHAPTER 1: WHAT IS PERSONALITY? What – And Where – Is Personality? Analyzing Wundt’s 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 Copyright © 2007 Allyn & Bacon Mayer’s Personality: A Systems Approach

PART 1: EXPLORING PERSONALITY CHAPTER 1: WHAT IS PERSONALITY? What – And Where – Is Personality? Definition of Personality is the organized, developing, system within the individual that represents the collective action of that individual’s major psychological subsystems. Copyright © 2007 Allyn & Bacon Self Control Some Psychological Systems… Knowledge Guidance Mayer’s Personality: A Systems Approach Action Implementation Motives and Emotions

PART 1: EXPLORING PERSONALITY CHAPTER 1: WHAT IS PERSONALITY? What – And Where – Is Personality? Where is Personality? “One of the most crucial questions of personality is, “Where is it? ”… (Monte) Copyright © 2007 Allyn & Bacon Mayer’s Personality: A Systems Approach

PART 1: EXPLORING PERSONALITY CHAPTER 1: WHAT IS PERSONALITY? What – And Where – Is Personality? The Molecular Molar Continuum Molar Sociology Psychology Biology Chemistry Molecular Copyright © 2007 Allyn & Bacon Mayer’s Personality: A Systems Approach Physics

PART 1: EXPLORING PERSONALITY CHAPTER 1: WHAT IS PERSONALITY? What – And Where – Is Personality? The Internal-External Continuum Inside the solar system Inside the earth Outside the solar system Outside the earth Inside the body Outside the body Inside Copyright © 2007 Allyn & Bacon Outside Mayer’s Personality: A Systems Approach

PART 1: EXPLORING PERSONALITY CHAPTER 1: WHAT IS PERSONALITY? What – And Where – Is Personality? Personality Amidst Its Subsystems Copyright © 2007 Allyn & Bacon Mayer’s Personality: A Systems Approach

PART 1: EXPLORING PERSONALITY CHAPTER 1: WHAT IS PERSONALITY? What – And Where – Is Personality? Personality Amidst Its Subsystems Groups Including or Interacting with Personality Sociological Level Psychological/ Symbolic Level Biological Level Copyright © 2007 Allyn & Bacon Internal Personality Nervous System Mayer’s Personality: A Systems Approach External Situational Elements

PART 1: EXPLORING PERSONALITY CHAPTER 1: WHAT IS PERSONALITY? What – And Where – Is Personality? Another Key Dimension: Time Copyright © 2007 Allyn & Bacon Mayer’s Personality: A Systems Approach

PART 1: EXPLORING PERSONALITY CHAPTER 1: WHAT IS PERSONALITY? What – And Where – Is Personality? Where it is…and What it is • Given where it is, what are its tasks? • How does it carry out these tasks? – To answer this, we must describe how it works Copyright © 2007 Allyn & Bacon Mayer’s Personality: A Systems Approach

PART 1: EXPLORING PERSONALITY CHAPTER 1: WHAT IS PERSONALITY? What – And Where – Is Personality? Most Common Training Programs Ph. D. in Personality Psychology Ph. D. in Personality and Social Psychology Ph. D. in Clinical and/or Counseling Psychology MD Program in Psychiatry Ph. D. Program in Organizational Behavior Ph. D. and Other in Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Engineering Copyright © 2007 Allyn & Bacon Mayer’s Personality: A Systems Approach

PART 1: EXPLORING PERSONALITY CHAPTER 1: WHAT IS PERSONALITY? What – And Where – Is Personality? Rationale for Studying Personality Psychology • Knowledge for knowledge’s sake • Applications to assessment (who am I? ) • Applications to prediction and selection (predicting the future…) • Applications to change (taking control of our lives) Copyright © 2007 Allyn & Bacon Mayer’s Personality: A Systems Approach

PART 1: EXPLORING PERSONALITY CHAPTER 1: WHAT IS PERSONALITY? What – And Where – Is Personality? Table 1: Prediction With Poor Assessment, r =. 00 Performance Okay Low Test Score High Test Score Total Copyright © 2007 Allyn & Bacon Total 50 Highly Successful 50 50 50 100 50 50 200 Mayer’s Personality: A Systems Approach 100

PART 1: EXPLORING PERSONALITY CHAPTER 1: WHAT IS PERSONALITY? What – And Where – Is Personality? Table 1: Prediction With Good Assessment, r =. 30 Performance Okay Low Test Score High Test Score Total Copyright © 2007 Allyn & Bacon Total 70 Highly Successful 30 30 70 100 50 50 200 Mayer’s Personality: A Systems Approach 100

PART 1: EXPLORING PERSONALITY CHAPTER 1: WHAT IS PERSONALITY? What – And Where – Is Personality? Taking Charge…Changing Ourselves • We may like some things but not others about ourselves • We may seek to change aspects of ourselves • Personality psychology allows for and educates us about such change Copyright © 2007 Allyn & Bacon Mayer’s Personality: A Systems Approach

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