Vol. 1 Theories of Personality: A Psychological Interpretation 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. Personality also 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. Environmental and situational effects on behaviour are influenced by psychological mechanisms within a person. Personality also predicts human reactions to other people, problems, and stress. Theories of Personality describes theorists who represent psychoanalytic, neo-psychoanalytic, lifespan, genetics, humanistic, cognitive, behavioral, and social-learning approaches, as well as clinical and experimental work. Vol .2 Theories of Developmental Psychology Change is inevitable. As humans, we constantly grow throughout our lifespans, from conception to death or ‘womb to tomb’. The field of developmental psychology explores the physical, cognitive, emotional, and social changes that happen as people age. Psychologists strive to understand and explain how and why people change throughout life. While many of these changes are normal and expected, they can still pose challenges that people sometimes need extra assistance to manage. Vol. 3 History and Theories of Psychology The history of psychology as a science began in 1879 with Wilhelm Wundt’s first laboratory, but its roots extend back to ancient philosophy. Early theories include structuralism, which focused on the basic elements of consciousness, and functionalism, which examined the purpose of mental processes. Later, behaviorism shifted focus to observable behavior, while the cognitive revolution brought attention back to mental processes, leading to modern approaches that integrate neuroscience, genetics, and other fields. Psychological thought can be traced to ancient civilizations like Greece and India, with philosophers like René Descartes exploring the mind-body connection in the 17th century.Wilhelm Wundt is credited with establishing the first psychology laboratory in Leipzig, Germany, in 1879, marking the start of psychology as a distinct scientific discipline. He used introspection to study consciousness.
Dr. Kyari Thomson is an Assistant Professor of Psychology and Quantitative Research Methods at the Yale University. Teaching visual perception and cognition in healthy and clinical populations using virtual reality, psychophysics and neuroimaging techniques. Kyari has obtained a BSc in Psychology and an MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience from the University of York, UK. She holds a PhD in Psychology with a focus on visual neuroscience, funded by the A.G. Leventis Foundation from the University of York, UK. To date, she has published 18 manuscripts in internationally recognised peer-reviewed journals, including Nature Methods, Annual Review of Psychology, Current Biology, Proceedings of the Royal Society B and Scientific Reports, and her work has been presented in 33 European and international conferences. A recipient of the prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship and currently an Expert Reviewer for the European Commission for such fellowships. She has been awarded with a Vice-Chancellor’s teaching award and a Vice-Chancellor’s Silver Award for Outstanding Achievement in Internationalisation from the University of York, UK.
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