PSYCH101 Study Guide - Baby Steps, Hominidae, Femininity

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Christine Logel

Document Summary

Trait descriptive adjectives adjectives that can be used to describe characteristics of people. Psychological traits characteristics that describe ways in which people are different from each other or are similar to each other: describe average tendencies. Psychological mechanisms processes of personality with 3 essential ingredients; inputs (environment), decision rules (options) and outputs (behaviour) Within the individual personality is something you carry with yourself over time and from one situation to the next. Organized mechanisms and traits are linked to one another in a coherent fashion: contain decision rules that govern which needs are activated, depending on circumstances. Enduring anger is a temporary state, but anger-prone, or hot-tempered is a trait that is enduring and relatively consistent from situation to situation. Influential forces traits and mechanisms can have an effect on people"s lives (influence how we think/act/feel) Person-environment interaction involves perceptions, selections, evocations and manipulations.