PSYC 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Neuroticism, Conscientiousness, Extraversion And Introversion
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Personality as the distinctive and relatively consistent ways of thinking, feeling, and. Personality is the dynamic organization within the individual of those psychological. Personality and individual differences acting that characterize a person"s responses to life situations (smith, 1993) systems that determine his or her characteristic behaviour and thought (allport, 1961) Trait perspective or paradigm? behaviour on trait approach. Some behaviours are more indicative of personality some traits seem to be related in clusters. That our perceptions of the meaning of a person"s behaviour are as accurate as anyone. How groups of people might behave in specific situations - not the individual. Describing personality variables and predicting behaviour - not explaining comparisons between people.