PSYB30H3 Lecture Notes - Personality Psychology, Behavioural Genetics, Learned Helplessness
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An organized and relatively enduring set of psychological traits and mechanisms that influences a person"s interactions with, and adaptations to, the environment. Originally, psychologists sought to understand the whole of personality (see grand theories of personality ) Modern work usu within one of a number of sub-areas or domains. Focus on number and nature of fundamental traits. Identify and measure most important ways individuals differ. Physical elements and biological systems that influence or are influenced by behaviours, thoughts, feelings. Aspects of the self and the relationship of self to others. Mental mechanisms that influence behaviour, thought, emotions. Classic, modern versions of freud"s work on structure and dynamics of psyche. How we regulate the self consciously and unconsciously. How we perceive and process information about the self and others; how we construct our experience. Personality affects, and is affected by, cultural and social contexts. Sex differences and gender differences in personality processes, traits.
