Psychology 2035A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Heritability, Terror Management Theory, Factor Analysis

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2035A/B
• Professor: John Campbell

Document Summary

Personality: individual"s unique constellation of consistent behavioural traits: consistent stability over time and across situations, distinctive behavioural differences among people reacting to the same situation. Personality traits: durable disposition to behave in a particular way in a variety of situations. In factor analysis, correlations among many variables are analyzed to identify closely related clusters of variables. If variables are correlated highly with one another, assume that a single factor is influencing all of them. 5 factor model of personality (mccrae & costa) five higher-order traits, related to socioeconomic status (ses: extraversion (positive emotionality, neuroticism (negative emotionality, openness to experience, agreeableness, conscientiousness. Psychodynamic theories: diverse theories descended from sigmund freud that focus on unconscious mental forces. 2 significant followers of freud jung and adler. The ego must achieve a compromise between the demands of the id, the constraints of the superego, and the demands of reality.