PSYA02H3 Chapter 14: [*] PSYA02 - Chapter 14 {Complete, stand-alone from Text} - Joordens
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Personality - particular trend of behavr & thinking that is common across time & situations & distinguishes 1 person from another. Personality-studying psygists - goal is to find out causes of individual distinctions in behav. 2 forms of effort req. to study personality: identifying personality charateristics, finding out variables that prod. Must be avoided when studying any science. Nominal fallcy- false belief that event"s causes are explaining merely by naming & identifying them. => explaining is not the same thing as identifying and naming. What you say after you saw an enraged person detach a mailbox from its position on the sidewalk, and through it across the street. (this only described the behaviour & identified it, but didn"t explain why it occurred) Trait = set of personal characteristics that determines diff. ways that one acts & reacts in various situations. No agreement on the number of traits, and which ones.
