PSYA02H3 Lecture : PSYa02 - CH 14 - NOTES.docx
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Personality is a particular pattern of behavior and thinking and determines how we act or react in a variety of situations. Dynamic organization integrated and unified whole, we have a sense of having a unified experience. organization occurs within the individual. Personality helps us makes adaptations to world around us: believed that people react the same in all situations. Cardinal traits rare, but strong unifying influence on person"s behavior. (eg. hitler) Central traits less singular than cardinal (eg. honest, warm) used to distinguish from others. Secondary traits minor influence in behavior (eg. freq to change jobs) He believes we only know how to explain a person"s personality once we can describe it! . 2: used allports information to bring allports 18 000 trait words into 171 adjectives (using factor analysis, he referred his 16 pf as source traits, to which personality was built.
