PSYC 464- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 39 pages long!)

• School: Xavier University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 464
• Professor: Nicholas Salsman

Document Summary

Also defined as an individual"s unique and relatively consistent patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving. The psychological triad how people think, how people feel, how people behave. A person is shaped by environment, emotion, actions, physiology, and thoughts. Personality = an individual"s characteristic patterns of thought, emotion, and behavior, together with the psychological mechanisms hidden or not behind those patterns (pg. Goal of personality psychology explain the whole person in his/her daily environment impossible to account for everything. There"s no one theory that can cover all of personality. How much money a person spends on groceries in a month based on receipts l data. What type of food a student purchases from dining areas and vending machines on campus . Reports from parents about what kind of food people ate as children i data. Answers to a healthy foods, healthy people survey s data. Reliability: the psychometric property in which a test gets the same results each time it"s taken.