PSYC35H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Trait Theory, Job Performance, Conscientiousness
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Why study individual differences: because it matters. Can see the extent to which these differences forecast a wide range of consequences. When put in the social stress test, there are differences in the way people respond. Can predict which individuals will react with more stress based on the neuroticism score this is just a small individual difference that shows the. We can predict how people behave differently. Not just that our personality differences predict benign personality consequences of differences differences in the lab, differences implicate outcomes in this world we live in. Construct of a personality trait an enduring consist in a way someone. Trait thinks, feels or acts: (cid:523)(cid:883)(cid:524) uses to describe a quality of a person . Referring to the quality of: (2) much more important is the way in which it refers to the variation a specific individual that people manifest in the expression of that trait.
