PSYB30H3 Lecture 1: Personality Lecture 01
Document Summary
Someone who has a lot of personality is active and lively, and someone who is extraverted. Someone who says another has a good personality can be unattractive. Personality is not a global quality but has many components and it is more complex than that. More nuanced, categories of personality are more nuanced and more dichotomous. Pig personality is false and no empirical evidence that backs this idea up. Personality: organized and relatively enduring set of psychological traits and mechanisms that influences person"s interactions with, and adaptations to the environment. Organized: traits and mechanisms work in relation to each other and organized in some way that allows them to work together as one. Relatively enduring: overtime one will exhibit certain traits in different situations the same way. If they react different this isn"t a trait they have. Trait and mechanisms: constituted of traits, where one distinct trait can be described by another.
