PSY100Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Puberty, Collectivism, Reaction Formation

• School: UTM
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100Y5
• Professor: Dax Urbszat

Document Summary

Defining personality: consistency and distinctiveness (cid:858)set(cid:859) pe(cid:396)so(cid:374)alit(cid:455) t(cid:396)aits. Distinctiveness- not everyone acts the same way in the same situation. Personality= a(cid:374) i(cid:374)di(cid:448)idual(cid:859)s u(cid:374)i(cid:395)ue (cid:272)o(cid:374)stellatio(cid:374) of (cid:272)o(cid:374)siste(cid:374)t (cid:271)eha(cid:448)iou(cid:396) t(cid:396)aits. Personality trait= disposition to behave in a particular way in different situations. Factor analysis= correlations between variables are analyzed to identify closely related clusters of variables (raymond cattell) Robert mccrae, paul costa (cid:858)latitude & lo(cid:374)gitude(cid:859: extraversion. Negative emotionality (increases probability of divorce, mental disorders linked: openness to experience. Less prejudice against minorities (playing instruments: agreeableness. Opposite: suspicious (honesty, lower class: conscientiousness. Self-discipline (workplace success, higher grades, live longer, high class) Some believe there are more than 5 traits account for personality. Some believe in a 3 factor model. Explains emotions, personality, disorders by looking at influences of early childhood experiences, unconscious motives, conflicts, how people deal with sexual/ aggressive urges. Conflict with theory: people are not masters of their own mind. Unconscious determining behaviour: people are not masters of their own destiny.