PSYB30H3 Chapter 1: chapter 1
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study indi differences- develop ways to classify, categorize, and organize the diversity of psychological individuality, and they look for biological and environmental forces and factors that explain those differences. The big five trait categories: ocean: openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. Trait attributions tell is about trends in bhvr over time and across diff situations, settings and contexts. characteristic adaptations are contextualized in time, place and/or role. characteristic adaptations are contextualized facets of psychological individuality that speak to motivational, cognitive and developmental concerns in personality. Identity is the problem of unity and purpose in life, a problem/challenge that many persons encounter as they move from adolescence into young adulthood. This can achieved through life history - which is an internalised and involving narrative of the self that integrates the reconstructed past, perceived present, and anticipated future in order to provide a life with a sense of unity and purpose.
