PSYA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Psychosexual Development, Orbitofrontal Cortex, Amygdala
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Personality: a pattern of thinking feeling, and behaving that is unique for each person. 12. 1 (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) and stays pretty much the same over time and situations (cid:1) (cid:1) Idiographic approach: find out detailed description of a person"s unique personality, understanding yourself and social world (ex. why is amisha so weird?) Personality traits: habitual patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving (so how that. Traits summarize a lot of info about a person and also help to predict how they will (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) person is most of the time) (cid:1) (cid:1) behave. (cid:1) (cid:1) Came up with 18,000 eng. words to describe physical/psychological attributes of a person then organized the words into traits developed the theory of personality structure (cid:1) (cid:1) Bertram forer conducted personality tests and then made a description of the subject"s personality that the subject thought was based on their responses (really everyone got the same description)
