PSYC 2P25 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Eysenck Personality Questionnaire, California Psychological Inventory, Criterion Validity
9 Nov 2012
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A personality trait refers to differences among individuals in a typical tendency to behave, think, or feel in some conceptually related ways, across a variety of relevant situations and across some fairly long period of time. The description of an individual"s personality is meaningful only to the extent that it gives us, directly or indirectly, a comparison with others. In a typical tendency to behave, think, or feel. Refers to a likelihood of showing some behaviours or of having some thoughts or feelings. The idea is that a trait is expressed by various behaviours, thoughts, and feelings that appear to have some common psychological cause. Sometimes, those expressions of the trait might share some obvious similarities to each other. A personality trait is not simply a habit that is confined to one specific situation; instead, it is shown across a variety of settings in which people differ in the ways that the trait is expressed.
