PSYC 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Psychological Resilience, Extraversion And Introversion, Hexaco Model Of Personality Structure
11 Dec 2016
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Personality: a characteristic pattern of thinking, feelings, and behaving that is unique to each individual, and remains relatively consistent over time and situations. Idiographic approach: creating detailed descriptions of a specific person"s unique personality characteristics: helpful in understanding the most disturbed to the healthiest of people. Personality trait: describes a persons habitual patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving. Traits summarize information about a person and help us predict how a person is likely to behave. Personality tests are derived to identify traits, theses include personality scales and ask things like rate your interest in meeting new people. The bar(cid:374)u(cid:373) effe(cid:272)t: people (cid:271)elieve that (cid:272)os(cid:373)o (cid:373)agazi(cid:374)e tests (cid:373)easure their perso(cid:374)ality (cid:271)ut they do(cid:374)"t. Factor analysis: used to group items that people respond to similarly. Right wing authoritarianism: a highly problematic set of personality characteristics that involve 3 key tendencies: obeying orders and deferring to the established authorities in a society.
