PSYB30H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Danger Within, Pangs, Personality Psychology
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Features of personality make people different from one another, and these features usually take the form adjectives. Trait-descriptive adjectives: adjectives that can be used to describe characteristics of ppl. There are nearly 20,000 such trait-descriptive adjectives in english. Notice that the adjectives describing personality refer to several very different aspects of ppl. Charming and humorous refer to the effects a person has on other people. The authors of the first textbooks on personality gordon allport (1937) and henry murray (1938) struggled with the definition of human personality. Psychological traits: characteristics that describe ways in which ppl are different from each other, as well as similar to each other. Shy is different from outgoing, and similar to those who are anxious in social situations. The trait of talkativeness can be meaningfully applied to ppl and describes a dimension of difference among them. Typically, a talkative person is that way most days, weeks, and years.
