PSYC 330 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Extraversion And Introversion, Anxiety, Neuroticism
20 Nov 2018
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Features of personality make us different from each other. Adjectives that can be used to describe characteristics of people are called trait-descriptive adjectives. Personality - the set of psychological traits and mechanisms within the individual that are organized and relatively enduring and that influence our interaction with the environment and our adaptations to the intrapsychic, physical, and social environment. Psych traits: extraverted vs not, they are the what of personality - features/characteristics - the spectrums on which people fall - can be used to compare against other people, does not explain why just the states the fact. They are useful because: describe people and help understand differences between them o. Mechanisms: the how, the processes of personality - how the traits are developed in us, how they exist in the context of certain situations, if-then rule. It involves inputs (the environment that stimulates them), decision rules (what they decide to do), and output (their behavior in the said environment)
