PSYC 2740 Midterm: midterm1 notes.docx

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

Document Summary

Environment: central feature of personality concerns adaptive functioning accomplishing goals, coping, adjusting, and dealing with challenges, often poses challenges for people, direct threats to survival (food shortages etc. , prestige of a good job, competition with others for job. Not everyone nor most other people do not have this trait: deals with how individuals differ from one another, collection of biological systems that provide building blocks for behaviour, thought, and emotion, mental mechanisms of personality, many that work outside of conscious, cognition and subjective experience (conscious thoughts, feelings, beliefs, Intrapsychic awareness: cognitive experimental desires, social and cultural, personality is not something that merely resides within the heads, nervous systems, and genes of an individual, but rather is affected by and affects the social and cultural context, role in how we cope, adapt, adjust to the ebb and flow of events in our, adjustment day to day lives.