PSYC 305 Lecture : Psyc 305 Chapter Notes.docx
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Personality, in everyday speech tends to focus on the specific personalities of specific persons; psychologists are more likely to focus on personality as an abstraction. When psychologists use the word personality they usually are referring to a conception of what everyone"s personality consists of. People use the word personality to convey a sense of consistency or continuity about a person. There is consistency across time and across situations you can tell it is the same person in these cases because they act in consistent ways from time to time and from setting to setting. People also use the word personality to convey a sense that whatever the person is doing originates from within. The term personality conveys the sense of a causal force within the person, influencing how they act. Personality is also used to convey the sense that a few qualities can summarize what a person is like because they"re so prominent in that person"s behaviour.
