PSYC 305 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Nomothetic, Personality Psychology
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Chapter 1 intro to personality psychology trait descriptive adjectives- adjectives that can be used to describe characteristics of people. Personality defined: personality- the set of psychological traits & mechanisms within the individual that are organized & relatively enduring & that influence his or her interactions with & adaptations to, the intrapsychic, physical, & social environments. Personality is the set of psychological traits : psychological traits- characteristics that describe ways in which people are different from each other. & similar to some others traits describe the average tendencies of a person research on personality traits ask 4 kinds of questions: And mechanisms : psychological mechanisms- are like traits, refers more to the processes of personality involve an info-processing activity. His or her interactions with interactions with situations include perceptions, selections, evocations & manipulations: perceptions refers to how we see or interpret an environment.