PSYC2600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Endocrinology, Big5, Psychoticism
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Lecture 5 - psychobiological & lexical approaches to personality: Personality is a probabilistic and dynamic system (expect personality to change itself now. Personality has both quantity and quality properties. Aim: systematically describes differences and similarities between (and within) individuals, across time and space. Emphasises the need of a useful scientific taxonomy. Personality is the dynamic & organised set of characteristics possessed by a person that uniquely influences her or his cognitions, motivations, attitudes, behaviour, and psychobiology as a whole. Temperament (characteristic, biologically-based reaction patterns, present from an early age) original expressions of the self since birth until developed into personality traits by the environment. Constitution or physiology (neurology, endocrinology, genetics, etc. ) The building blocks of personality are called traits. Traits are general dispositions that people possess that uniquely influence their psychology. Traits are probability biases that possess a survival function (the forces above influence these biases) These biases never cease as the forces never stop changing.
