PSY 260 Lecture Notes - Big Two, Explicit Memory, Extraversion And Introversion
Document Summary
Hierarchical structures of traits: a structural theory about traits in which there are said to be big traits or super traits that can be divided into a larger number of lower-level specific traits (anxiety, emotional sensitivity, moodiness) Big 2 supertraits: eysenck"s hierarchical model of traits extraversion-introversion and neuroticism-stability divisible into more specific traits, collectively the two traits and their subdivisions are sad to describe much of personality. Big 3 supertraits: eysenck"s hierarchical model of traits: added psychoticism-tender mindedness (being solitary, uncaring, troublesome, insensitivity, cruelty, paranoia) Consciousness: a subjective experience of attention and awareness and the capacity to reflect on that awareness. Declarative memory: includes all the information that could be consciously retrieved if necessary - activation (level of mental energy) when it rises over a threshold a concept is retrieved. Unconscious: a part of the mind that cannot or does not readily enter awareness.
