PSY 307 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Externals, Impression Management
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Align more with dictionary definitions involving consistent patterns of behavior that are properties or characteristics of individuals. Funder: individual"s characteristic patterns of thought, emotion, and behavior, together with psychological mechanisms hidden or not behind those patterns . A fixed mental attitude or disposition that predetermines a person"s responses to and interpretations of situations. Taking mental in a broad sense, mindset would be a stable pattern of thinking, feeling, behaving that is also a mechanism. Key components of your mindset may be a variety of what can be called standards, including those standards that: Are your expectations about what will happen. Are what you believe happened in the past. Are embodied in your best and least liked things. Are key to your system of values (and ideals) Are implied by your standard daily habits". These questions define the scope and what is the focus of science of personality.
