PSYC 2740 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Neuroticism, Heritability, Conscientiousness
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Intrapsychic: cognitive experimental, social and cultural, adjustment, mental mechanisms of personality, many that work outside of conscious awareness, cognition and subjective experience (conscious thoughts, feelings, beliefs, desires, personality is not something that merely resides within the heads, nervous systems, and genes of an individual, but rather is affected by and affects the social and cultural context, role in how we cope, adapt, adjust to the ebb and flow of events in our day to day lives. 1: traits assumed to be internal, corresponding needs and desires carry across settings and presumed to be causal, traits may lie dormant, helps to rule out other causes of behaviour, as a descriptive summary, without assuming internality/causality, summarize behavioural trends. Traits=categories of acts: act nomination, procedure designed to identify which acts belong to which trait categories, prototypicality judgement, which acts are most central to each trait, recording of act performance, securing information on the actual performance of individuals in their daily lives.
