PSYC 4750 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Big Five Personality Traits, Sensation Seeking, Prefrontal Cortex
26 Jun 2017
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Temperament and personality traits are a source of motivation. Temperament: refers to consistent individual differences in emotionality and is a result of genetically inherited characteristics: biological factors, manifests in childhood, more fixed. Personality: a consistent way of behaving as a result of the interaction between temperament characteristics and social experience: social factors, develops later, modifiable by experience. Personality traits as categories or causes of behavior. Personality traits: refer to the consistency in a specific set of behaviors across time and across relevant situations. Trait: also defined by the relationship among different behavioral habits. Personality dimensions help explain why people are motivated by different incentives, situations and activities. Personality traits are real entities that account for differences in behavior among people. It is necessary to measure a personality trait independently of the behavior that is to be explained. The existence of personality trait is validated by how it is measured that is, its operational definition.
