PSY 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Big Five Personality Traits, Mirror Test, Joint Attention
27 Oct 2016
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Motives, plans, goals, schemas, self-conceptions, stage-specific concerns, coping mechanisms. Unique and integrative life stories that construct to give ourselves an identity and meaning to our lives. Perspective most strongly associated with mcadams and pals. An organized combination of attributes, motives, values, and behaviors unique to each individual. Co(cid:373)posite of traits that (cid:373)ake up a perso(cid:374)"s perso(cid:374)ality. Often described in terms of relatively enduring dispositional traits. Perspective most strongly associated psychoanalytic and trait theories. Characteristic adaptions: more variability; situation-specific and changeable ways in which people adapt to their roles and environment shaped by environment. Self-esteem: our overall evaluation of our worth as a person based upon the positive and negative self-perceptions that constitute our self-concept. Identity: our overall sense of who we are and how we fit into society. 2-3 months: see they can cause things to change (string and a/v experiment)
