PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Reality Principle, Oral Stage, Social Cognitive Theory

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Myriam Mongrain

Document Summary

Quality of consistency across situations lies at core of the concept of personality. Distinctiveness is another core concept each person has his/her own distinctive set of personality traits. 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 reaction to the same situation (distinctiveness) Personality refers to an individual"s unique constellation of consistence behavioural traits. A personality trait is a durable disposition to behave in a particular way in a variety of situations (honest, dependable, friendly are dispositions that represent personality traits) A small number of fundamental traits determine other, more superficial traits. A person"s tendency to be impulsive, restless, impatient might be derived from a more basic tendency to be excitable. In factor analysis, correlations among many variables are analyzed to identify closely related clusters of variables.