Individual variations
Individual Variations are common within and across all species. Variations add
colours and beauty to nature . For a moment, think of a world around you where
each and every is of the same colour , say red or blue or green .
How would appear to you ?
Certainly not a beautiful one ! Would you prefer to live in such a world ?
In all likelihood, your answer will be 'no' . Like objects, people too possess different
combination if traits .
Variability is a fact of nature, and individual are no exception to this . They vary
in terms of physical characteristics, such as height, weight, strength, hair , colour
and so on . They also vary along psychological dimensions . They may be intelligent
or dull, dominant or submissive, or not so creative , outgoing or withdrawn, etc. The
list of variation can be endless . Different traits can exist in varying degrees in an
individual . In this sense, each one of us is unique as s/he exemplifies a typical
combition of various traits .
For Psychologists , individual differences refers to distinctiveness and
variations among people's characteristics and behaviour patterns .
Assessment of Psychological Attributes...
Psychological attributes are involved in very simple phenomena like in tie taken
to react to a stimulus , i.e. reaction time, and also in highly global concepts like
Happiness . It is difficult to count and specify the number of psychological
attributes that can be assessed .
Assessment is the first step in understanding a psychological attribute . Assessment
refers to the measurement of psychological attributes of individual and their evaluation,
often using multiple methods in terms of using certain standards of comparison .
Any attribute will be said to be exists in a person only if can be measured by using
scientific procedures . For example, when we say, "Harish is dominant", we are refferring
to the degree of 'dominance' in Harish .
This statement is based on our own assessment of 'Dominance' in him . Our assessment
may be informal or formal . Formal assessment is objective , standardised, and
organised . On the other hand , informal assessment varies from case to case and from
one assessor to another and, therefore , is open to subjective to interpretation .
Psychologists are trained in making formal assessment of psychological attributes .
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