PSY 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Neuroticism, Walter Mischel, Canoe.Com
26 Apr 2016
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Personality: a person"s unique pattern of consistent behavioral traits. Ex: if a person is friendly, they will always be friendly regardless of the situation. Two aspects of personalities: consistency: the stability of a person"s behavior over time and across situations. Ex: if you have a consistent personality, you will behave the same way over time and across situations: distinctiveness: behavioral differences among people reacting to the same situation. Trait: a durable disposition to behave in a certain way in a variety of situations. You can look at personality at a few basic traits (because once a person has a basic trait, they have a variety of superficial ones) Ex: restless, impatient, impulsiveness (superficial traits) can have an underlying basic trait (excitability) Factor analysis: correlations among many variables are analyzed to identify closely- related clusters of variables. 5 10 where each number represents a trait. Let"s assume 1,6,9, 10 and 2,7,8 and 3,4,5 are clusters.
