PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Human Potential Movement, Psychoticism, Twin
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Optimistic personality includes someone that is cheerful, hopeful, enthusiastic and looks on the bright side across a variety of situations. Personality describes why people act differently in the same situation. Everyone has their own distinctive set of personality traits. Personality is ued to explain (1) the stability in a person"s behaviour over time and across situations (consistency) and (2) the behavioural differences among people reacting to the same situation (distinctiveness). Personality- an individual"s unique constellation of consistent behavioural traits. Personality trait- a durable disposition to behave in a particular way in a variety of situations. (ex. Honest, dependable, anxious, etc) factor analysis- correlations among many variables are analyzed to identify closely related clusters of variable. (if a number of variables correlate highly with each other, there is a single factor that influences all of them. Impulsive, restless, impatient all relate to being excitable).