[PSYC 2740] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes fot the exam (112 pages long!)

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2740
• Professor: Stephen Lewis

Document Summary

Information-processing procedures that have the key elements of inputs, decision rules, and outputs: ex. Courageousness trait that is only activated under particular conditions such as when people face serious dangers and threat to their lives; you wont know who is courageous until the right situation presents itself. Influential forces of personality personality traits and mechanisms can. And that influence (cid:499) have an effect on people"s lives: personality influences, how we act (cid:498) his or her interactions with (cid:499, person-environment interaction is complex, perceptions: Human nature: first level of personality analysis, describes human nature in general the traits and mechanisms of personality that are typical of our species and are possessed by everyone or nearly everyone, ex. Men are typically more physically aggressive than: one goal of personality psychology is to understand why certain aspects of women personality differ among groups, ex. Variation in need to belong (individual difference), men more physically aggressive than women (group difference)