PS102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Drive Theory, Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, Behavioural Genetics
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Personality- distinctive and relatively enduring ways of thinking, feeling, and acting that characterize a person"s response to situation. Derive from the word persona actors mask (face you provide to the world/ environment) Personality scales and self ratings, interview data, responses on projective tests, Reports ratings by other people , physiological measures, behavioural assessments (use. Multiple ways to find out personality) (people tend to be more positive rather than negative. Need explicit coding system specific situations, under what conditions. Aim is not solely to describe" behaviour specific behaviour, frequency, Interjudge reliability high level agreement among observers. Objective measures use standard questions and agreed upon scoring ke. Concern have to identify what are the underlying trait that describe people. Some genetic component, some environmental (impact can change your state/ trait - overtime) Differences across people come from within the person (how you treat your problems, inside of the person) Catell was the first 16 traits with opposing labels ex.
