PS101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Personal Unconscious, Phallic Stage, Conscientiousness
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Distinctiveness: each individual has his or her own distinctive set of personality traits. Concept of personality is used to explain: the stability in a person"s behavior over time and across situations(consistency, the behavioral differences among people reacting to the same situation(distinctiveness) Personality: an individual"s unique constellation of consistent behavioral traits. Personality traits: a durable disposition to behave in a particular way in a variety of situations. Adjectives such as: honest, dependable, moody, impulsive, suspicious, anxious, excitable, domineering, and friendly. Some traits are more basic than others i. e. excitable: impulsive, restless, irritable, boisterous, and impatient factor analysis: correlations among many variables are analyzed to identify closely related clusters of variables identify hidden factors very basic, higher-order traits. An individual"s personality can be described completely by measuring just 16 traits. Big 5 traits and feelings of subjective well-being: 2 of the big 5 traits are related to health and mortality over the course of life span.
