PSY 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Big Five Personality Traits, Unconditional Positive Regard, Ambiguous Image
26 Oct 2018
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Covers ch1, appendix a, ch8, ch 11 (80-90% new material) Emphasizes the influence of how people think and interact in social settings . 3 factors influence how personality is expressed in a certain situation. Environment - the situation at any given moment. Trait: a relatively stable,enduring predisposition to behave, think or feel. Surface trait - characteristic or attribute that can be inferred from observable behavior. Source trait - most fundamental dimensions of personality ; broad, basic traits. Talkativeness is the surface to outgoing source trait. 5 factor model of personality (ocean) hypothesized to be universal and relatively few in number. Projective test:involves a person"s interpreting an ambiguous image; used to assess unconscious motives, conflicts, psychological defenses and personality traits. Social psychology- study of how thoughts, feelings and behavior are influenced by the presence of others and by social settings. And how our behavior is affected by our attitudes .
