Psychology 2550A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Social Environment, Toshiyori, Testability

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2550A/B
• Professor: Ana Feher

Document Summary

Psychological traits are the characteristics that describe ways iin which people are different from each other or similar to eachother. Traits describe the avarage tendencies of a person. Help describe people and help nerstand the dfferences among people. Psychological mechanisms are th eprocess of personalit involve information processing activity. Within the individual menas that personality is something a person carries with themselves over time anf from one situation to the next. Psychology traits are also relatively enduring over time and somewhat consistent over situations. Influenctial forces of personality means that personality traits and mechanisms can have an effect on people"s lives. Person-environemnt interaction is complex interactions with situations include perceptions, selection, evocations, and manipulations. Perceptions two peopl may be exposed to the same objective event but what they pay attention to and how they interpret the event may be very different (this difference is a function of their personalities)