PSY100H1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Visual Cortex, Bob Altemeyer, Ingroups And Outgroups
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Personality is a characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling and behaving that is unique to each individual, and remains relatively consistent over time and situations. Two personality measurements: idiographic approach focuses on creating detailed descriptions of a specific person"s unique personality characteristics. Criminal profilers may focus on a detailed profile of a serial killer to help the investigation: nomothetic approach examines personality in large groups of people, with the aim of making generalizations about personality structure. Understanding factors that predict certain behaviour across people in general. Allows psychologists to see what types of people are more/less likely to engage in certain behaviours. Personality traits describe a person"s habitual patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving: how we are most of the time . Gordon allport tallied 18000 english words that could describe someone: then developed a theory of personality structure by organizing words into traits. Very vague results can resonate with everyone when you just think about it.
