Sheldon Cooper
Extremely intelligent
Socially inept
Rigidly logical
Extreme stubbornness
Penny
Messy
disorganized
emotional
Have a think?
What makes people different?
Why are someone quiet and passive, while others are loud and aggressive?
personality
What are personality traits?
What is personality (definition)?
What’s the feature of it?
News item
Personality traits
Enduring characteristics that describe an individual’s behavior
The more consistent the characteristics over time,
and the more frequently it occurs in diverse situations,
the more important that traits is in describing the individual.
What is personality?
Gordon Allport :
The dynamic organization within the individual of those psychophysical systems that determine his unique adjustments to his environment
You can think of it as…
Enduring
characteristics that describe an individual’s behavior
the sum total of ways in which an individual reacts to and interacts with others
Personality is a collection of traits
In this chapter, we can consider personality and personality traits as the same thing
Example: Aaron Alexis
the dead gunman in the Washington Navy
Yard shooting
he opened fire at
Monday, Sept. 16,
2013, killing 12 people. the motive of the gun shooting is unknown
What’s his personality ?
Is there some connection between his personality and behavior?
What’s his personality ?
Review for the gunman’s past from documents
Descriptions from his friends
red flags in the recent past of Aaron
Alexis
http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/18/us/navyyard-alexis-redflags/index.html?iref=allsearch
http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/u s/2013/09/17/exp-lead-dnt-tapper-navyyard-shooter.cnn.html
Summarize:
2004
anger fueled blackout
2008
cursed