PSYCH 9C Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Cold Hearted, Reality Principle, Oedipus Complex
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Traits: emotions, thoughts, behaviors that are relatively stable over time. Traits vs. types: dimensions not kinds or categories. 5 primary dimensions along which human (& perhaps animal) personality differs. Fantasy vivid imagination and fantasy life. Feelings receptive to emotional states and experience. Ideas intellectually curious and open values re examine traditional values. People who are high on extraversion: sociable. Golden retrievers of humans: active, assertive. Like their opinions to be known: sensation-seeking, they have better relationships. Report happier marriages: examples: class clowns. You don"t have to be high on every single one of these characteristics (you just have most of these qualities. Your score would still be high for extraversion if you were missing a couple of these qualities. Modern family: gloria(?, character is lovely, vivacious, someone who likes to talk to people, and likes to talk to people. Opposite person of this would not like parties, and not like much of any of these.
