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| Chapter 1: The Study of the Person |
- Personality psychology's unique mission is to address the psychological triad of thought, feeling, and behavior, and to try to explain the psychological functioning of whole individuals. This is an impossible mission, however, so different approaches to personality must limit themselves by emphasizing different psychological topics.
- Personality psychology can be organized into five basic approaches: trait, biological, psychoanalytic, phenomenological, and learning/cognitive processes. Each addresses certain aspects of human psychology quite well and ignores others. The advantages and disadvantages of each approach are probably inseparable.
- This book is grouped into five sections that each survey a basic approach, plus a final chapter on the personality disorders.
- Sometimes regarded as a field that seeks to pigeonhole people, personality psychology's real implication is an appreciation of the ways in which each individual is unique.
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