PSYC18H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Polyhedron, Jeffrey Alan Gray, Impulsivity
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Early temperament contributes to personality: one"s characteristics are stable over time across situations. Biases of emotion in temperament and personality central personality traits (neuroticism, extraversion, and agreeableness) involve individual diffs in emotionality. Affective-cognitive structures: individual diffs in emotion whch affect emotional information processing and behaviour. Eg) temperament in babies & personality in adults are affective biases that shape feelings, perception, and personality across situations across lifespan. How individual differences in emotion shape how we construe the world. Perceptual biases derive from people"s personality traits and affect daily living. Anxious people are more sensitive to attentive to threat-related stimuli than neutral stim. Neurotic cascade: neur people have more daily probs, have more severe emotional response and reactions to recurring probs. Biases in more anger-prone individuals causes them to feel more angry about ambiguous situations, than less anger-prone. Hostile attribution bias: bias that contribute to aggressive b and problematic interactions.
