PSC 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Reinforcement Learning, Sensation Seeking, Agreeableness
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Defining personality: personality- individual"s typical way of thinking, feeling, behaving, composed of many traits-particular characteristics, or patterns of thought, emotion, and behavior that are relatively consistent over time and across situations. Idiographic- seek to characterize the whole individual: nomothetic-seek to characterize differences between individuals. In other words, individuals stop someone"s train of thought when they interrupt it to insert their view, experience, and or outlook. Though contribution of personal thoughts usually are essential keep the flow of conversation going, the most important thing to look out for is opportunity as opposed to the point. There seems to be a trend of interruption with the purpose of guessing what the bottom line is. Such interruption with positive intent is synonymous with enthusiasm, but proves detrimental to abstract thought. However, on a less positive note, interjection into someone"s dialogue can occur due to insecurity.
