PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Orbitofrontal Cortex, Factor Analysis, Behavioral Activation

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Dan Dolderman

Document Summary

Characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, behaving that is unique to each individual & remain relatively consistent over time & situations. Idiographic approach: create detailed descriptions of specific person"s unique personality characteristics understand self & social world; full human experience self-actualize. Nomothetic approach: large groups of ppl to make generalizations about personality structure predict certain behaviours moral personality: predict courage & heroism. Person"s habitual patterns of thinking, feeling & behaving summarize info & predict behave. Gordon allport (1930s): 18000 eng words to describe physical & psychological attributes cosmopolitan: personality scale. Cardinal traits: specific trait that dominate person"s whole life * develop later in life. Machiavellian: become powerful without empathy, planning, strategy to success. Central traits: basic foundations of personality; not dominating (major characteristics) Secondary traits: attitudes, preferences in certain situations/ specific circumstances. Barnum effect: easily convince that personality profile describe them even if false. Bertram forer (1940s): personality test personality description believe base on test responses very convincing same description!