PSYC 2600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Psychophysiology, Psychoticism, Extraversion And Introversion
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Class 5 (traits: exam review on tuesday at 5-6 pm, there will be a chat room available on the culearn page, exam review link available on cu learn. When we think of them this way, we see them as something inside the individual. Humbleness and honesty can be applied to this perspective: a common example is also courage. These three examples share something in common, in terms of behavioural residue. These examples are not visible: you have to wait for the situation to determine if someone is courageous, humble, or honest. We (cid:449)ould(cid:374)"t try to scare someone who is neurotic: personality is your usual way of responding to the world. Descriptive summary: the act frequency formulation starts with the notion that traits are categories of acts. We come up with things that describe an action: we have to nominate acts, we make a list, we want to look at the content of the domain and sample from it.
