PSYC 231- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 36 pages long!)
29 Mar 2018
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Definition: scientific study of the individual differences in characteristics patterns of thinking, feeling , and behaving. Building blocks of personality: self identity, social cognition. A study of how our personality and decision making is influenced by our social environment. A typical way of thinking, feeling, and acting in various situations, at different times. Have caused people to develop behaviours and traits that are adaptive to the environment and facilitate survival study of how brain and central nervous system affects personality: neuroscience. 1. 2 how does the way we explain and interpret events impact personality. Fundamental attribution error: the tendency to overestimate the extent to which a persons behaviour is due to internal, dispositional factors, and to underestimate the role of external, situational factors. Decreases our understanding of the true causes: leads to. Personality measure - players classified as naturally "competitive or. "cooperative" percentage choosing competitive or cooperative strategy: dependent variable, results.
