PSYB30H3 Study Guide - Personality Psychology, Pollination Syndrome, Inclusive Fitness
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Personality traits are general internal comparative dispositions we attribute to people to sort out meaningful behavior and account for consistencies. Traits determine things like personality and behavior across situations. Big 5 ocean chart on page 7: openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism. Outline, need to go beyond dispositional traits. Move beyond dispositional into contextualized aspects such as time place and role: Cas are contextualized facets of psychological individuality that speak to motivational, cognitive and developmental concerns in personality. Life story is an internalized evolving narrative of self that integrates the reconstructed past, perceived present and anticipated future to provide life with a sense of unity and purpose. Starting from adolescence people being to think of their lives as stories to rewrite and revise. Traits fill out outline, adaptations fill them in, life stories speak to what a human life means overall.
