PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Authoritarian Personality, Social Cognitive Theory, Trait Theory
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Personality can be measured by examining the details of our dwellings. A key challenge is to figure out how our personalities (dispositional) and circumstances (situational) work together in shaping our behaviour. Personality a characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and behaving that is unique to each individual, and remains relatively consistent over time and situations. This is a step toward changing behaviours of societal importance: identify the important personality traits that are related to whatever it is that you"re interested in understanding. Personality trait a person"s habitual patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving. Trait descriptors summarize information about a person and help to predict how that person will behave across a range of different situations. The barnum effect it"s remarkably easy for people to be convinced that a personality profile describes them well. Factor analysis used to group items that people respond to similarly.
