PSYC 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 34: Extraversion And Introversion, Mental Disorder, Neuroticism

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1200
• Professor: Dawson Clary

Document Summary

Culture has great influence, language acquisition plays role. 3 levels of moral development, each broken into 2 sub levels. 1) preconventional morality a) punishment orientation & b) na ve reward orientation think in terms of external authority, acts are wrong because they are punished and right because they lead to positive consequences. 2) conventional morality c) good boy/girl orientation & d) authority orientation see rules as necessary to maintain social order, accept the rules as their own, internalize them to be virtuous and earn approval from others. Most personality traits derived from 5 higher order traits. 1) extraversion outgoing/sociable/assertive/friendly positive, motivated, correlated with popularity and dating variety of people. 2) neuroticism anxious/hostile/self-conscious/insecure overreact to stress, impulsive, elevated probability of divorce & mental disorder. 3) openness to experience tolerant of ambiguity, liberalism, associated with playing an instrument curiosity/flexibility/imaginativeness. 4) agreeableness empathetic, correlates with honesty, less prevalent in upper class sympathetic/trusting/cooperative.