PSYC 2740 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Personality Psychology, Open Data Protocol, Heritability

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2740
• Professor: Stephen Lewis

Document Summary

Personality is the set of psychological traits are different from each other: psychological traits are characteristics that describe ways in which people, traits describe average tendencies, which is the tendency to display a certain psychological trait with regularity. For example, on average, a high talkative person will start more conversations than a low talkative person: psychological traits are useful for at least 3 reasons, they help describe people and help understand the dimensions of difference between people, traits are useful because they help explain behaviour. Within the individual : within the individual means that personality is something a person carries with him or herself over time and from one situation to the next, the definition of personality stresses that the important sources of personality reside within the individual and, hence, are at least somewhat stable over time and somewhat consistent over situations.