PSYC 2740 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Personality Psychology, Decision Rule, Trait Theory
3 Feb 2018
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Lecture 1 and chapter 1 intro to personality psychology: traits can have moderate stability overtime ex. If someone is shy at a young age, they may still stay shy as they age. Defining personality: the set of psychological traits and mechanisms within the individual that is organized and relatively enduring and that influences his or her interactions with and adaptations to, the environment (including intrapsychic, physical and social environment) Trait descriptive adjectives: adjectives that can be used to describe traits, attributes of a person that are reasonably characteristic of the person and enduring over time. Mechanisms is a process of personality and how it may reel different outcomes and actions. Most psychological mechanisms have an information-processing activity. If cowardly, then run away from danger, output = 1. Personality is something a person carries with them overtime form one situation to the next. We carry the same personalities with us from situation to situation.
