PSYCH211 Lecture : PSYCH 211 - Personality (Lecture 21 - 22).docx

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH211
• Professor: Mathieu Le Corre

Document Summary

Introspective: wide range of interests, values intellectual matters, aesthetically reactive. Extraversion social interactions (high = extrovert, low = introvert) Agreeableness how well we read others (high = more caring, low = less caring) Neuroticism how well we react to anxiety (high = higher anxiety if you are good at something, anxiety can help you do better in the task, low = lower anxiety) Conscientiousness how well we do things/follow rules (high = hard working, low = not so hard working) Openness curiosity, imagination, creative thinking (high = very creative, low = not creative) Some personalities are stable but others aren"t (based on documentary: stable extraversion, neuroticism, conscientiousness, unstable agreeableness, openness, why, interactions between environment and genes. : compare james & eleanor: negatively correlates with salivation in response to lemon juice, conscientiousness: Find that line predicts how well cake was made. Personality: nature or nurture: how genes and environment interact, genes push for stable trait despite environment.