PSY 1102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Determinism, Frontal Lobe, Biopsychosocial Model

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: Najwa Haddad

Document Summary

There will be 10 questions from this section on midterm 2 and final. Personality is the typical way we think, feel, and behave. How do we end up thinking, feeling, and behaving in this typical way: evaluating the trait perspective. The trait perspective disregards the influence of environmental and situational factors. According to the trait perspective, traits are powerful predictors of behaviour. Environmental / situational factors influence and affect personality. Was the first to criticize the trait perspective. According to mischel, behaviour varies from 1 situation to the next and traits are poor predictors of behaviour. Traits are poor predictors of behaviours only if we use them to predict the behaviours of people in specific situations. Traits are good predictors of behaviours when we want to predict behaviour on average, across similar situations. The trait perspective does not offer an explanation as to how we end up with different traits.