PSYC 2600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Social Desirability Bias, Hermann Rorschach, Inter-Rater Reliability
3 Feb 2016
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How might we describe someone"s personality: we"re using attributes to get idea of what to expect from this. General characteristics, tend to describe average tendencies (because. Is similar to a process, an information processing model: to describe how personality works, three ingredients. On average, we carry our innate tendencies in ways that we relate to the environment. Traits and mechanisms are organized: we don"t see personality as just a random collections of thoughts and feelings. Psyc2600: week 1: most people tend to have relatively stable ways of behaving in most situations. Traits are relatively stable overtime: states are transient experiences, frequency and stability are important. Personality impacts how we think, feel, and act/interact: some people might be more sensitive to certain things from the environment. Perception - how we perceive the world depends on our. Selection - personality also effects our selection of personality traits situations. from others. Evocation elicit similar behavior of thoughts and feelings.
