PSYB30H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Nomological Network, Harm Avoidance, Schizotypal Personality Disorder
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Chapter 4 personality traits: fundamental concepts and issues. Personality traits refer to individual differences between people in characteristic thoughts, feelings, and behaviours. Psychologists use trait concepts to account for consistencies in behaviour from one situation to the next. This view holds that traits are merely language categories for the organization of discrete behavioural acts. As such, traits do not influence behaviour per se but rather traits are the behaviours. Four positions of the nature of traits . Traits are biological patternings in the central nervous system that causes behaviour to occur and account for the consistencies in. Socioemotional functioning from one situation to the next and over time. Traits are tendencies to act, think or feel in consistent ways that interact with external influences, such as cultural norms and situational variables, to influence a person"s functioning. Trait attributions can be used both to describe behaviour summaries and to suggest causal or generative mechanisms for behaviour.
