PSY 103 Lecture 2: Study Soup (Psy ch.2)
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What does it mean if you say that a friend has an optimistic personality? your statement suggests that the person has a fairly . Consistent tendency to behave in a cheerful, hopeful, enthusiastic way, looking at the bright side of things, across a wide variety of situations. Distinctiveness is also central to the concept of personality. everyone has traits. In summary, we use the idea of personality to explain. (1) the stability in a person"s behavior over time and across situations. (2) the behavioral differences among people reacting to the same situation (consistency) and (distinctiveness). We can combine these ideas into the following definition: personality refers to an individual"s unique constellation of consistent behavioral traits. let"s look more closely at the concept of traits. Personality trait is a durable disposition to behave in a particular way in a variety of situations.
