PSYB30H3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Discriminant Validity, The Anatomy Of Dependence, Factor Analysis
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Personality psychology: scientific study of what makes people who they are. Study of individual differences: for identifying ways in which people are similar and different, how they became that way. Traits: a person s typical way of thinking/feeling/acting in various situations, at different times. These are consistent across lifetime and expressed in many ways. Genetics: study of how genes and environment affect personality/behaviour. Evolution has selected behaviours that improve survival of species/individual and their close genetic relatives. Neuroscience: study of how brain and nervous system affect personality/behaviour through the study of bodily responses, brain structure, brain activity, and biochemical activity. Self and identity: sense of who we are including self-concept, self-esteem, social identity. Social identity: trying to present ourselves in certain way to others or taking on the personality that others give us. Intrapsychic foundations of personality: looking within selves (intra) to own conscious and unconscious thoughts/feelings (psychic) that also make up our personality.
