PSYC 100 Lecture 17: PSYC WEEK 17

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jordan Poppenk

Document Summary

A characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling and behaving that is unique to each individual and remains relatively overtime and situations. Stable over time (trait) but can change temporarily in the face of different situations (state). Trait: a person"s habitual patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving. How that person is most of the time. Summarises a lot of information about a person. Helps to predict how that person will behave across a wide range of different situations. State: a temporary physical or psychological engagement that influences behaviour. Personality traits- how to measure them: personality tests- although they measure personality, they do it in a variety of ways such as adjectives and rating scales, statements and agreement ratings, images. Others, such as ones in magazines/online, are not. Mmpi-2: has over 500 items that you answer yes or no to ( i like mechanics magazines, i have a good appetite, i wake up fresh and rested most mornings )