PSYC 2740 Midterm: Midterm 1 Review

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The problem with defining personality is how to establish a definition that is sufficiently comprehensive to include all the aspects; inner features, social effects, qualities of the mind, qualities of the body, relations to others, and inner goals. Personality is: the set of psychological traits and mechanisms within the individual that are organized and relatively enduring and that influence his or her interactions with, and adaptations to, the intrapsychic, physical, and social environments. Personality traits: characteristics that describe ways in which people are different from each other. Traits also define ways in which people are similar to some others. Traits describe the average tendencies of a person. Psychological traits help to understand the dimensions of differences among people, help explain behaviour, and they can help predict future behaviour. Personality useful in describing, explaining, predicting. Psychological mechanisms input decision rules: if, then output. Psychological mechanisms like traits, except the term mechanisms refers more to the processes of personality.

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