PSYB10H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Black Sheep, Social Comparison Theory, Extraversion And Introversion
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Traits: consistent ways that people think, feel, and act across classes of situations. Five-factor model: five personality traits (openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism) that psychologists believe are the basic building blocks of personality. Heritability: the degree to which traits or physical characteristics are determined by genes and hence inherited from parents. According to the principle of diversification, siblings develop into quite different people so that they can peacefully occupy different niches within the family environment. The social self can be thought of as having three primary components: the individual self, the relational self, and the collective self, which may differ in prominence across individuals. Our family context plays a role in gender-related differences in self-construal. Distinctiveness hypothesis: the hypothesis that we identify what makes us unique in each particular context, and we highlight that in our self-definition. Social comparison theory: the hypothesis that we compare ourselves to other people in order to evaluate our opinions, abilities, and internal states.
