PSYB30H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-4: Naturalistic Observation, Psychoticism, Internal Consistency
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Trait descriptive adjectives: adjectives that can be used to describe characteristics of people. Refer to a variety of aspects of personality: Effects a person has on other people. Quality of mind and nature of the products we produce. Strategies people use to attain their goals. Difficult to come up with a comprehensive definition of personality. Personality: set of psychological traits and mechanisms within the individual that are organized and relatively enduring and that influence his/her interactions with, and adaptations to, the intrapsychic, physical, and social environments. Psychological traits: characteristics that describe ways in which people are different from or similar to each other. Describe the average tendencies of a person. Describing people and help understand the dimensions of difference among people. Explain behaviour: reasons why people act may be a function of their personality traits. Psychological mechanisms: like traits, except that the term mechanism refers more to the process of personality.
