PSYC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Eustress, Amygdala, Thalamus

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC100
• Professor: Medina Tamara

Document Summary

Openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism - straight up self report, report to others, ask people, watch people. Valid - is the measure really getting at the concept you are trying to measure. Reliability - does the measure give you the same score for a person every time you check. Temperament is innate while personality is more learned behavior. Infants have different behaviors than adults but show similar emotions, personality paradox people"s behavior is less consistent than a stable trait would suggest. Small rewards pitted against each other - evaluate outcomes based on traits correlations not causations. Occuring at the same time or with overlap. Two or more distinct states, gaps in memory, depersonalized, hearing voices, not bipolar disorders, !% popilation associated with bad childhood, children have problems but can be diagnosed at any age, Delusions hallucinations disorganized speech negative emotions and catatonic behavior.