PSYCH101 Lecture 15: Personality Psychology

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Christine Logel

Document Summary

Music preferences: classical, jazz, blues, folk music = tend to be open to experience and verbally intelligent, while country, pop and religious music = cheerful, outgoing and conscientious dorm rooms and offices: can display our identity personal websites: gain clues about person"s extraversion, conscientiousness, and openness to experience e mail: detect personality from writing voice of their e mail. Reciprocal determinism: interacting influences of behaviour, internal cognition, and environment ex diff. people choose diff. environments = shapes you our personalities shape how we interpret and react to events our personalities help create situations to which we react. Learned helplessness vs. personal control: learned helplessness: the hopelessness and passive resignation an animal/human learns when unable to avoid repeated aversive events ex nursing home patients with 93% more control became alert, active, and happy excess control = contributes to decreasing life satisfaction, increased depression, and at times, decisional paralysis.