PSYC 2740 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-6: Psychoticism, Face Validity, Construct Validity
23 Oct 2012
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Personality is the set of psychological traits and mechanisms within an individual that are organized and relatively enduring and that influence his/her interaction with an adaption to the intrapsychic, physical and social environment. Psychological traits characteristics that describe the ways in which people are different from one another. Average tendencies displaying certain traits with regularity. Psychological mechanisms like traits except mechanisms" refers to processes of personality input. Within the individual personality is something a person carries with him/herself over time and from one situation to the next. Organized psych traits and mechanisms not random collection of elements mechanisms + traits are linked to one another in a coherent fashion. Enduring traits are relatively consistent over time. Person environment interaction perceptions, selection, evocation, manipulation. Perception how we see, interpret the environment. Selection the manner in which we choose situations to enter. Evocation reactions we produce in others unintentionally.
