PS101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Sigmund Freud, Defence Mechanisms, Personal Unconscious
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Although no one is entirely consistent in behaviour, this quality of consistency across situations lies at the core of the concept of personality. Distinctiveness is also central to the concept of personality. Personality is used to explain why not everyone acts the same way in similar situations. Each person has traits that are seen in other people, but each individual has his or her own distinctive set of personality traits. The concept of personality is used to explain (1) the stability in a person"s behaviour over time and across situations (consistency) and (2) the behavioural differences among people reacting to the same situation (distinctiveness) Personality refers to an individual"s unique constellation of consistent behavioural traits. Personality trait is a durable disposition to behave in a particular way in a variety of situations. In factor analysis, correlations among many variables are analyzed to identify closely related clusters or variables.
