PSY 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 47: Autonomic Nervous System, Positive Psychology, Parenting
11 Nov 2018
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(motivation to fulfill one"s: he studied people who were healthy and creative, like abraham lincoln. potential) One is such an optimist that they deny the threats going on in the world; the other is a dark despair. Action requires enough realism to give concern and enough optimism to give hope. Some psychologists attempt to explain personality in terms of stable and enduring behavior patterns. Allport did something freud did not: describe personality in terms of fundamental traits (people"s characteristic behaviors and conscious motives. Personality is defined in terms of identifiable behavior patterns: exploring traits, a major fail to capture one"s full individuality is classify them as one or another distinct personality type. This is a statistically correlated cluster of behaviors that reflect a basic factor, or trait: two: biology and personality, one"s biology impact one"s personality. They are just as evident and as consistently judged compared to humans: three: assessing traits, several trait assessment techniques exist.
