PSYC 2740 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Nomothetic, Extraversion And Introversion, Decision-Making
26 Dec 2015
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Personality: the set of psychological traits and mechanisms within the individual that is organized and relatively enduring and that in uences his or her interactions with, and adaptions to, the environment (including the intrapsychic, physical and social environment) Traits are an average tendency that we use to describe how people are different or the same. Traits are also more like degrees and not categories, someone can have degrees of introversion. Traits can in uence the relationships you have, the emotions you have etc. They interact with us based on the situations that we choose to be in, effects the reactions that we have towards other people. People could have the same inputs but due to traits they have different outputs. State anxiety: unpleasant emotional arousal in face of threats/dangers. Trait anxiety: tendency to respond with state anxiety in the anticipation of threats/dangers. Human nature level > like all others - most people want to belong to something.
