PSYB30H3 Lecture Notes - Personality Psychology, Behavioural Genetics, Trait Theory
Document Summary
Personality defined: an organized and relatively enduring set of psychological traits and mechanisms that influences a person"s interactions with, and adaptations to, the environment. Areas of interest and research: 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. Intrapsychic: trait/dispositional, biological, regulatory and motivational, cognitive-experiential. Trait / dispositional: ways in which individuals differ, goals: Focus on number and nature of fundamental traits. Interaction btw trait and situations, what impacts certain situations have on traits and vice versa. Physical elements and biological systems that influence or are influenced by behaviours, thoughts, feelings: behavioral genetics of personality extent to which traits are genetics, vs . environmental or learned (proportions) Aspects of the self and the relationship of self to others, self is how we conceive ourselves and conceptualize ourselves.
