PSY 205 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Oedipus Complex, Genital Stage, Gordon Allport

• School: Syracuse University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 205
• Professor: Shannon Houck

Document Summary

Defining personality: consistency and distinctiveness: consistency. The stability in a person"s behavior over time and across situations: distinctiveness. The behavioral differences among people reacting to the same situation: personality. Refers to an individual"s unique set of consistent behavioral traits. Personality traits: dispositions and dimensions: personality trait. A durable disposition to behave in a particular way in a variety of situations: gordon allport. Identified more than 4500 personality traits in the dictionary: factor analysis. Correlations among many variables are analyzed to identify closely related clusters of variables. If the measurements of a number of variables correlate highly with one another, the assumption is that a single factor is influencing all of them. The five-factor model of personality traits: robert mccrae and paul costa. Five higher-order traits known as the big five: extraversion. Have a more positive outlook on life and are motivated to pursue social contact, intimacy, and interdependence: neuroticism. Also exhibit more impulsiveness and emotional instability: openness to experience.