MHR 523 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Canoe.Com, Conscientiousness, Big Five Personality Traits
22 Feb 2015
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Relatively enduring pattern of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors that characterize a person, along with the psychological processes behind those characteristics: external traits-observable behaviors. Internal states- thoughts, values, etc. inferred from behaviors: some variability. Influenced by nature: heredity explains about 50 percent of behavioral tendencies and 30 percent of temperament, minnesota studies-twins had similar personalities. Influenced by nurture: socialization, life experiences, learning, personality stabilizes throughout adolescence, executive function steers behavior guided by our self-concept. Jungian personality theory: swiss psychiatrist carl jung. Identifies preferences for perceiving the environment and obtaining/processing information: commonly measured by myers-briggs type indicator (mbti) Myers-briggs type indicator (mbti: extroversion versus introversion, similar to five-factor dimension, perceiving information, sensing- uses senses, factual quantitative, intuition- uses insight, subjective experience. Judging (making decisions: thinking-rational logic, systematic data collection, feeling influenced by emotions, how choices affect, orientation toward the external world, perceiving- flexible, spontaneous, keeps options open, judging-order and structure.
