PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Big Five Personality Traits, Social Cognitive Theory, Hexaco Model Of Personality Structure
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Personality is a characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and behaving that is unique to each individual, and remains relatively consistent over time and situations. Idiographic approach: focused on creating detailed descriptions of a specific person"s unique personality characteristics: i. e. criminal profilers may focus on a detailed study of a serial killer in order to help police with their investigation. Personality trait: describes a person"s habitual patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving; how that person is most of the time . Summarize about a person i. e. an extraverted person is more likely to be comfortable in social situations, and hence attend more parties and an introverted person. Personality tests, trait labels and ask individual how well it rates him/her. The barnum effect - every person was given the same personality description that didn"t really match anyone, a lot of people assumed it did.
