PSYC 2740 Lecture Notes - Trait Theory, Impulsivity, Barnum Effect

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2740
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Trait theories of personality offer a collection of viewpoints about the fundamental building blocks of human nature. With a change in a given trait, a relative difference (rank order) remains between individuals. Across situations psychologists make assumption that traits exhibit some. Ex: a person is more likely to start up a convo with a stranger at a party than they are at the library. Evocation: the idea that certain personality traits may evoke specific responses from the environment, ex: people who are disagreeable and manipulative may evoke certain reactions in others, such as hostility and avoidance. In other words, people may create their own environments by eliciting certain responses from others. Silent treatment : ignoring/failing to respond to the other person. Coercion : making demands, yelling, criticizing, threatening to get what one wants: manipulation differs from selection in that selection involves choosing existing environments, whereas manipulation entails altering those environments already inhabited.