PSYCH 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Reaction Formation, Halloween Costume, Mortality Salience
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Personality: a distinctive pattern of behavior, thoughts, motives, and emotions that are consistent in an individual over time. Consistent ways that you generally approach things in your life. Projective tests are used to define personality. Personality traits: long-term disposition to behave in particular ways in a variety of situations. There were 18,000 words to describe personality traits and was narrowed down, hence cattell. Mccrae and costa: developed the big five personality traits; believe most personality traits fall under these categories. Research on the big five traits shows that in general. Women tend to be higher than men on agreeableness and neuroticism. No gender differences found in openness to new experiences. Overall men and women seem to be more similar in personality than different. Social role theory: gender differences are based on cultural messages and expectations regarding appropriate behaviors, careers and activities. Both genders may share the same personality traits but the way they act on it are different.
