"Personality psychology is a branch of psychology that examines personality and its variation among individuals."
This topic covers the enduring characteristics that determine how we think, feel, and behave.
Personality traits: Personality traits refer to patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that distinguish individuals from one another. This topic explores the different types of personality traits and how they impact behavior.
Personality development: This topic explores how personality develops over time through both environmental and genetic factors. It covers the stages of personality development and the different theories of personality development.
Big Five personality traits: Also known as the Five Factor Model, this theory of personality traits categorizes individuals based on five dimensions: openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism.
Personality assessment: This topic covers various methods used to evaluate individual personality, including self-report measures, behavioral assessments, and projective tests.
Trait theory: Trait theory focuses on identifying and measuring individual personality traits. This topic explores the origins and different perspectives of trait theory.
Personality disorders: People with personality disorders experience ongoing patterns of extreme emotions, cognition, and behavior that deviate from social norms. This topic covers different types of personality disorders and their symptoms.
Social cognitive theory of personality: This theory explains how personality is shaped by both environment and personal variables, such as self-efficacy, cognitive appraisal, and emotional regulation. This topic explores the principles of the theory.
Psychoanalytic theory: Psychoanalytic theory proposes that behavior is driven by unconscious thoughts and desires. This topic covers the principles of the theory and its founder, Sigmund Freud.
Attachment theory: Attachment theory explains how early childhood relationships can impact an individual's personality and behavior. This topic explores the principles of the theory and the different attachment styles.
Self-concept: Self-concept refers to an individual's perception of themselves, including their self-esteem and self-efficacy. This topic explores how self-concept develops and influences behavior.
"Its areas of focus include the construction of a coherent picture of the individual and their major psychological processes, investigation of individual psychological differences, and investigation of human nature and psychological similarities between individuals."
"'Personality' is a dynamic and organized set of characteristics possessed by an individual that uniquely influences their environment, cognition, emotions, motivations, and behaviors in various situations."
"The word personality originates from the Latin persona, which means 'mask'."
"Personality pertains to the pattern of thoughts, feelings, social adjustments, and behaviors persistently exhibited over time that strongly influences one's expectations, self-perceptions, values, and attitudes."
"Personality also predicts human reactions to other people, problems, and stress."
"Gordon Allport (1937) described two major ways to study personality: the nomothetic and the idiographic."
"Nomothetic psychology seeks general laws that can be applied to many different people, such as the principle of self-actualization or the trait of extraversion. Idiographic psychology is an attempt to understand the unique aspects of a particular individual."
"The study of personality has a broad and varied history in psychology, with an abundance of theoretical traditions."
"The major theories include dispositional (trait) perspective, psychodynamic, humanistic, biological, behaviorist, evolutionary, and social learning perspective."
"Many researchers and psychologists do not explicitly identify themselves with a certain perspective and instead take an eclectic approach."
"Research in this area is empirically driven – such as dimensional models, based on multivariate statistics such as factor analysis – or emphasizes theory development, such as that of the psychodynamic theory."
"There is also a substantial emphasis on the applied field of personality testing."
"In psychological education and training, the study of the nature of personality and its psychological development is usually reviewed as a prerequisite to courses in abnormal psychology or clinical psychology." Note: Due to the limitation of generating specific quotes, some questions may not have directly corresponding quotes from the provided paragraph.