Charlie Harper Two And A Half Men
Amanda Arruda
JR304
Preparation Paper #1
September 10, 2014
Question #1
I chose Charlie Harper from the television show “Two and A Half Men” to illustrate each of the three different levels from which a personality psychologist might seek to understand the particular case. The three levels include dispositional traits, characteristic adaptations, and life stories. These traits are used by a personality psychologist in order to paint an overall picture of an individual.
Dispositional traits give a broad overview of personality that describes differences in behaviors, thoughts and feelings of an individual person. There are five basic dispositional trait categories: Openness to Experience, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, …show more content…
You tell a story from the inside of how something in the past has shaped who you are and who you want to be in the future. This is how we give meaning to life and growth from problems. In the television show Charlie claims that his childhood was awful and that his mother screwed him up. He says that his relationship issues come from how he was brought up by his mother, leaving her responsible for them. Charlie blames everyone else for his problems, in his mind making them okay, instead of changing them. With all three of these different levels you can paint a better picture of Charlie’s …show more content…
In the first step the use of observations of human behavior have lead to new insights and theories. These observations were found within use of case studies. Case studies are used to give in-depth information on one individual human being. Observations lead us into the second step of building a theory. The observations collected in the prior step are organized and then used to draw a theory. Theories are a speculation until evidence can prove the theory and can change due to new observations. Theory helps use understand a person by providing a picture. Theories are evaluated using seven different criteria, including: Comprehensiveness, Parsimony, Coherence, Testability, Empirical validity, Usefulness, and Generativity. In step three the theories are then tested to evaluate the truth of the theory. This is tested with the Correlation design, which compares how two or more variables relate to each other. A proposed statement that all human beings are good is a falsifiable
JR304
Preparation Paper #1
September 10, 2014
Question #1
I chose Charlie Harper from the television show “Two and A Half Men” to illustrate each of the three different levels from which a personality psychologist might seek to understand the particular case. The three levels include dispositional traits, characteristic adaptations, and life stories. These traits are used by a personality psychologist in order to paint an overall picture of an individual.
Dispositional traits give a broad overview of personality that describes differences in behaviors, thoughts and feelings of an individual person. There are five basic dispositional trait categories: Openness to Experience, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, …show more content…
You tell a story from the inside of how something in the past has shaped who you are and who you want to be in the future. This is how we give meaning to life and growth from problems. In the television show Charlie claims that his childhood was awful and that his mother screwed him up. He says that his relationship issues come from how he was brought up by his mother, leaving her responsible for them. Charlie blames everyone else for his problems, in his mind making them okay, instead of changing them. With all three of these different levels you can paint a better picture of Charlie’s …show more content…
In the first step the use of observations of human behavior have lead to new insights and theories. These observations were found within use of case studies. Case studies are used to give in-depth information on one individual human being. Observations lead us into the second step of building a theory. The observations collected in the prior step are organized and then used to draw a theory. Theories are a speculation until evidence can prove the theory and can change due to new observations. Theory helps use understand a person by providing a picture. Theories are evaluated using seven different criteria, including: Comprehensiveness, Parsimony, Coherence, Testability, Empirical validity, Usefulness, and Generativity. In step three the theories are then tested to evaluate the truth of the theory. This is tested with the Correlation design, which compares how two or more variables relate to each other. A proposed statement that all human beings are good is a falsifiable