PSYC 1101 Chapter 13: Personality
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Chapter 13: personality ~ person"s characteristic thoughts, emotional responses, and behaviors, personality trait ~ pattern of thought, emotion and behavior that is relatively consistent over time and across situations. There are long term implications of temperaments. Humanistic approaches emphasize integrated personal experience: humanistic approach ~ approaches to studying personality that emphasize how people seek to fulfill their potential through greater self-understanding. People sometimes are inconsistent: situationism ~ theory that behavior is determined more by situations than by personality traits. Behavior is influenced by interaction of personality and situations. Interactionists ~ theorists who believe that behavior is determined jointly by situations and underlying dispositions. Personality traits are relatively stable over time: characteristic adaptations ~ adjustments to situational demands. Development and life events alter personality traits: aging related change, situational causes of personality change. Personality refers to both unique and common characteristics.
