PSY 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Conscientiousness, Agreeableness, Extraversion And Introversion

• School: University of Iowa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1001
• Professor: Habashi Meara

Document Summary

Trait something that is long lasting and lasts over multiple situations. States and traits traits would need to be looked at in other situations, someone"s state could depend on their mood. The biologically and environmentally determined characteristics within the person that account for distinctive and relatively enduring patterns of thinking, feeling, and acting. Personality psychology studies these individual differences and how they can help up predict and understand behavior. all measuring something similar. Agreeableness: organized, careful, disciplined, soft-hearted, trusting, helpful. Adjectives in the dictionary: 4544 moods and states, if there are traits to describe human behavior, then we must have a, 5266 evaluations. Moods and states are different than traits, they are shorter in duration. Things that typically fluctuate that we typically ___ with mood. Words that were good or bad in (valence) Personality traits aren"t supposed be either good or bad. They aren"t supposed to have connotations: 3682 miscellaneous.