PSYB30H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Nomothetic, Human Nature, Psychophysiology
17 Aug 2018
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Aristotle in nicomachean ethics expressed some observations about humor (tasteful ones make you seem tactful while those who have too much look like buffoons: acting as though he is a personality psychologist. Trait-descriptive adjectives: words that describe traits, attributes of a person that are reasonably characteristic of the individual and perhaps even enduring over time. Personality is hard to define authors of first textbook on personality (gordon allport and. Because it is so complex some textbooks omit a formal definition entirely because it is so broad. Psychological traits characteristics that describe ways in which people are unique or different from or similar to each other. Psychological traits include all sorts of aspects of persons that are psychologically meaningful and are stable and consistent aspects of personality. Traits describe a persons average tendencies: average tendencies: tendency to display a certain psychological trait with regularity. For example, on average, a high-talkative person will start more conversations than a low- talkative person.
