Kinesiology 2276F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Neuroticism, Big Five Personality Traits, 16Pf Questionnaire
30 Oct 2018
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Underlying, relatively stable, psychological structures and processes that organize human experience and shape a person"s actions and reactions to the environment. Includes perceptions of external world and self, basic attitudes, values, interests, and motives. Reflective of who we are; least amenable to change. Shown in how we react/ interpret different situations compared to others. Outside of our core: depends on environment we are in. Variable, daily behaviors influenced by the particular context we are in. Its our upbringing, our genetics that determine our personality. Learn these different behaviours in these different contexts. Ectomorph (tall and lean, linearity): introverted, tense, socially restrained. Endomorph (short and round, plumpness, fatness, roundness): sociable,, affectionate. Emphasis is placed on the person rather than on the situation or the environment. Traits are thought to reflect motivational systems that increase adaption to positive or negative stimuli. When these traits co-mingle, they create trait dimensions. Few people possess the traits that reflect the far ends of the dimensions.
