PS101 Chapter 12: chapter 12 notes
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Optimistic personality fairly consistent tendency to behave in cheerful, hopeful enthusiastic way; looking at bright side. Personality used to explain why not everyone acts the same way in similar situations. Each person has traits seen in other people each individual has their own distinctive set of personality traits. Concept of personality: consistency: the sta(cid:271)ilit(cid:455) i(cid:374) a pe(cid:396)so(cid:374)(cid:859)s (cid:271)eha(cid:448)iour over time and across situations, distinctiveness: the behavioural differences among people reacting to the same situation personality: (cid:396)efe(cid:396)s to a(cid:374) i(cid:374)di(cid:448)idual"s u(cid:374)i(cid:395)ue (cid:272)o(cid:374)stellatio(cid:374) of (cid:272)o(cid:374)siste(cid:374)t (cid:271)eha(cid:448)iou(cid:396)al t(cid:396)aits. Personality trait: a durable disposition to behave in a particular way in a variety of situations: e. gs. honest, dependable, moody, impulsive etc describe depositions that represent traits. Most approaches to personality assume that traits are derived from concccc more basic tendency. Robert mccrae and paul costa used factor analysis to create 5 factor model of personality.
