PSYC37H3 Chapter 13: PSYC37 WEEK 9 CHAPTER 13 TEXTBOOK NOTES
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Chapter 13: applications in clinical and counseling settings. Personality characteristics - non-intellective aspects of human behaviour. Personality - relatively stable and distinctive patterns of behaviour that characterize an individual and their reactions to the environment. Personality traits - tendencies to act, think or feel in a certain manner in any given circumstance and that distinguish one person from another. Personality types - general descriptions of people. Personality states - emotional reactions that vary from one situation to another. Self-concept - a person"s self definition, an organized and relatively consistent set of assumptions that a person has about themselves. Binet, a person"s pattern of intellectual functioning may reveal information about personality factors. Specific tests of human personality were not developed until world war i to distinguish people on the basis of emotional well-being, to identify emotionally unstable military recruits. To enable evaluation of a large number of people and screen out those who were unit for the military service.
