PSYB30H3- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 107 pages long!)
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Psyb30 chapter 1 - introduction to personality psychology: personality psychologist analyze the characteristics of persons, adjectives that can be used to describe characteristics of people are called trait. Personality is the set of psychological traits and mechanism within the individual that are organized and relatively enduring and that influence his or her interactions with, and adaptations, to the intrapsychic, physical, and social environments. And mechanisms : psycholigical mechanisms: are like traits, except that the term mechanisms refers more to the process of personality (most involve information-processing activity, ex. Human nature: the first level of personality analysis describes human. Sigmund freud views the personality as consisting of irrational sexual and aggressive instincts while the cognitive perspective views humans as rational. At the level of differences between the sexes, personality may operate differently for men and women: gender is an essential part of our identities.
