[PSYC 305] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (31 pages long!)
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Personality: set of psychological traits and mechanisms within the individual that is organized & relatively enduring that influences his/her interaction with, and adaptations to the environment. Mechanism: how we process information, how we think about things/perceive things. Within individual: internal aspect, we make inference about personality by examining behavior. Organized: everything comes together to form a functioning person. Relatively enduring: extent to which personality traits are stable over time. Yes seem to have influence on behavior over time, not specific instances . Interactions with, adaptation to the environment: including intrapsychic, physical and social environment. Explains way of thinking in a number of different domains (all of these things come together that allow the person to function in the world. What we all have in common as a species and possessed by nearly everyone. How we process information, how we behave, e. g. everyone is social in nature.
