PSYC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Reticular Formation, Guppy, Brain Damage
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Individuals characteristic style of behaving, thinking, and feeling. Explanations for why there are psychological differences among people. Focus on prior events and anticipated events that affect personality. People indicate the extent to which sets of statements or adjectives accurately describe their own behavior or mental state: projective. Series of ambiguous stimuli elicit unique responses that reveal inner aspects of an individual"s personality. Make up stories about ambiguo us pictures of people. Relatively stable tendency to behave in a particular and consistent way. Pre-existing tendency that causes the behavior (measured personality inventories) Motivation that guides the behavior (measured by projective tests) Researchers have argued how many core traits exist. Traits can be classified by using adjectives (language), which may be organized in a hierarchical pattern. Low" on trait ex: openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism. In a study, participants made personality judgements of business office and dormitory room occupants based on the way the rooms looked.
