PSYC 2740 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Trait Theory, Open Data Protocol, Psychoticism

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Input - may make people more sensitive to certain kinds of info from the environment (ex. extraverted person may look for opportunities to be with other people) Decision rules - may make them more likely to think about speci c options (ex. extraverted may consider in each situation the possibilities for human contact and interaction) Perceptions - how we see or interpret an environment. Selection - the manner in which we choose situations to enter. Evocations - reactions we produce in other, often unintentionally. Manipulations - ways in which we intentionally attempt to in uence others. Wednesday, january 30, 2019: traits can be adapted so that they are goal directed, functional, and purposeful, how we cope with our social, physical, and intrapsychic environments make up our personality. What are the three levels of analyzing personality: human nature level - like all others. Universals - the ways in which we are all alike; how we are all the same.