PSYB30H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Personality Psychology, Pangs, Psychophysiology
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Trait-descriptive adjectives: adjectives that can be used to describe (cid:1) characteristics of people. Note: b/c there are so many aspects of personality, it is hard to come. Psychological traits: characteristics that describe ways in which. Traits describe the average tendencies of a person e. g. a high-talkative person on average starts more convos than a low-talkative person but a high-talkative person is not always yapping all the time (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) What are the origins of traits? e. g. what cultural and child-rearing practices affect the development of particular traits. Describe people and help understand the dimensions of difference among people. Predict future behaviour: the reason why ppl act may partly be a fxn of their personality (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) mechanism refers more to the process of personality and mechanisms . Psychological mechanisms: like traits, except that the term. Our personalities contain many psychological mechanisms that involve information-processing procedures.
