PSYC 2740 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Social Environment, Social Desirability Bias, Inter-Rater Reliability
3 Mar 2017
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Features of personality make people different from one another these features usually take the form of adjectives. Adjectives that can be used to describe characteristics of people are called trait- descriptive adjectives. Psychological traits are characteristics that describe ways in which people are different from each other. Traits also define ways in which people are similar to some others. Average tendencies tendency to display a certain psychological trait with regularity on average, high talkative person will start more conversation than a low talkative person. One primary question is how many fundamental traits are there. The second research question relates to the organizations or structure of traits. The third research question concerns the origins of traits where they come from and how they develop. The fourth research question relates to the correlation and consequences of traits in terms of experience, behaviour, and life outcomes. Personality is useful in describing, explaining, and predicting differences among individuals.
