PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Classical Conditioning, Heritability, Albert Bandura

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jordan Poppenk

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Each of which lies on a continuum, not within a set of categories or absolutes. Personality is a pattern of thinking and interacting that is unique to each individual and remains relatively consistent over time and across situations. Personality defined: a particular pattern of behaviours and thinking that prevails across time and situations and differentiates one person for another. Minor changes in behaviour do not really affect what we think of as personality. The study of personality focuses on describing stable differences among individuals. Standardization, reliability and validity make for a good personality test. Ex: minnesota multiphasic inventory: an objective personality test that asks people to answer a series of true/false questions about themselves. Ex: neo personality inventory: measures personality factors-provides a series of statements that a person agrees or disagrees with on a five-point scale. Ex: rorschach test: a series of inkblots is presented and the person describes what he or she sees in the inkblot.