PSYC 2100 Quiz: Personalities and Behaviors

• School: University of Virginia
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2100
• Professor: Williams Cedric

Document Summary

An individual"s characteristic patterns of thought, emotion, and behavior, thgether with the psychological mechanisms - hidden or not. Psychological triad: the combination of how people think, feel and behave: overlap with clinical psychology o. Normal vs. extreme patterns of personality clinical psychology mostly study extreme patterns of o personality extreme patterns of personality personality psychology study both normal and o. The whole person o o how all other areas of psychology come together not just the fragments of personality. Explain the whole person in his or her daily environment however, it is impossible to account for everything at the o same time. Think of an important behavior that you performed recently and all of the reasons for that behavior. The trait approach: what"s a trait? thoses things we used to describe each other characteristic patterns of thought, feeling, and o behavior formal definitions.