PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Carl Jung, Oedipus Complex, Sexual Repression

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: all

Document Summary

The concept of personality explains the consistency in people s behaviour over time and across situations while also explaining their distinctiveness. Factor analysis can be used to identify higer-order traits from which speci c traits are derived. There is considerable debate as to how many trait dimensions are necessary to account for the variation in personality. Nonetheless, the ve-factor model has become the dominant conception of personality structure. The big five personality traits are extraversion, neuroticism, openness to experience, agreeableness, and conscientiousness. The concept of personality is used 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 situations (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.