PSYC 2740 Final: EXAM REVIEW.docx

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

Document Summary

Personality refers to relatively stable individual differences that are believed to present early in life and involves characteristics that generalize across time and across situations. The word personality is derived from the ancient greek word meaning persona persona refers to the masks that. Greek actors would wear according to which character they were portraying. Although much of our personality lurks inside us and we carry our personality from place to place, the term actually refers to the external styles of expressions that are on display for other people to see. The scope of personality research includes things that apply to all people, things that apply to defined groups of people and things that apply to specific people. Personologist or people-ologist person interested in the study of personality; have a great interest in why people differ and why they differ. Most important goal: prediction make predictions about personality in the future based on what is currently known about personality.