PSYB30H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Personality Psychology, Human Nature, Gordon Allport
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When we refer to a friend as conscious and reliable, we are describing features of their personality. When we characterize ourselves as thoughtful, intelligent, and ambitious, we are describing features of our personalities. Features of personality make people different from one another, and these features usually take the form of adjectives, such as john is lazy, mary is optimistic, & fred is anxious. Adjectives that can be used to describe characteristics of people are called trait- descriptive adjectives. There are nearly 20,000 such trait-descriptive adjectives in the english language. Trait-descriptive adjectives: words that describe traits, attributes of a person that are reasonably characteristic of the individual and perhaps even enduring over time. The adjectives describing personality refer to several very different aspects of people. Words such as thoughtful refer to inner qualities of mind. Words such as charming and humorous refer to the effects a person has on. Words such as domineering are relational and signify a person"s position, or.
