PS101 Chapter 12: Chapter 12.docx
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Chapter 12/personality: definition of personality: refers to an individual"s unique constellation of consistent behavioural traits is a durable disposition to behave in a particular way in a variety of. Is a word we use to describe certain things. The consistencies of behaviour across situations over time. Something that is consistent for you; that drives you to behave in certain ways correlations among many variables are analyzed to identify closely: hypothetical constructs. Observations, constructs (groupings of observations), relationships (how one observation relates to another: consistency of behaviour across situations and time. Attempts to map constructs to personality": what parts are useful for describing you personality, each theory adopts one perspective. Therefore no theory is necessarily more correct than any other theory. Nomothetic all individuals: more people are similar than they are dissimilar. Tend to be broader than other approaches: are extremely difficult to test.
