PSYA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Egotism, Mortality Salience, Name–Letter Effect
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Personalty an individual"s characteristic style of behaving, thinking and feeling: develops naturally as we travel through life. You describe people as generally having the same qualities, but you are described many different ways. Measures tendencies towards clinical problems depression, hypochondria, anxiety, paranoia and unconventional ideas. General personality chars masculine and feminine gender role identification, sociability vs social inhibition, and impulsivity. In psychology, personality refers to a person"s characteristic style of behaving, thinking, and feeling. Personality psychologists attempt to find the best ways to describe personality, to explain how personalities come about, and to measure personality. Two general classes of personality tests are personality inventories, such as the. Mmpi-2, and projective techniques, such as the rorschach inkblot test and the. Traits don"t explain why a person acts a certain way. Trait may be a pre-existing disposition that causes their behaviour. Authoritarianism tendency towards political conservatism, obedience to authority, and conformity.
