PSYB30H3 Chapter 1: Chapter 1 (lecture and book notes combined)
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Lecture 1: chapter 1 studying the person. Goal to construct a scientifically credible account of psychological personality. What do we know when we know a person. Personality traits general, internal and comparative dispositions that we attribute to people in our effort to sort individuals in behavioral categories and to account for consistencies we expect to see from one situation to the next. Most common procedure used to quantify individual differences in traits is to use self- report questionnaires. Good trait measures have been used to predict behavior overtime and across situations the many dispositional traits are grouped into 5 categories (the big five: openness to experience (o, conscientiousness (c, extraversion (e, agreeableness (a, neuroticism (n) The big five traits provide a comprehensive description of basic dimensions of variability in human psychological qualities that are implicated in consequential social behavior. Trait attributions are useful because they tell us about trends in behavior over time an across different situations.
