PSYC 2740 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Psychosexual Development, Circadian Rhythm, Twin
24 Jan 2017
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Aristotle described and analysed many personality characteristics, including truthfulness, courage, intelligence, self-indulgence, anger proneness, and friendliness in his book on ethics. Features of personality make people different from one another: these features usually take the form of adjectives, adjectives that can be used to describe characteristics of people are called trait-descriptive adjectives. Nearly 20,000 trait-descriptive adjectives in the english language. Adjectives describing personality refer to several very different aspects of people. The definition has to be sufficiently comprehensive to include all of the aspects of personality: inner features, social effects, qualities of the mind, qualities of the body, relations to others, inner goals. Personality: the set of psychological traits and mechanisms within the individual that are organized and relatively enduring and that influence his or her interactions with, and adaptations to, the intra-psychic, physical, and social environments. Examining the definition: (cid:498)personality is the set of psychological traits (cid:499):
