PSYC 1010 Chapter 12: Chapter 12 .docx

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Ravi Naimpally

Document Summary

Chapter 12: personality: theory, research, and assessment (547-589) Optimistic personality indicates that a person has a fairly consistent tendency to behave in a cheerful, hopeful, enthusiastic way, looking at the bright side of things, across a wide variety of situations. The quality of consistency lies at the core of the concept of personality. Distinctiveness is also central to the concept of personality. Personality is used to explain why not everyone acts the same way in similar situations. Various reactions to the same situation occur because each person has a different personality. The concept of personality is used to explain (1) the stability in a person"s behaviour over time and across situations and (2) the behavioural differences among people reacting to the same situation. Personality refers to an individual"s unique constellation of consistent behavioural traits. A personality trait is a durable disposition to behave in a particular way in a variety of situations.