PSYC 2600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Psychopathy, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Impression Management

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2600
• Professor: Chris Davis

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Both of these people are perceived to be a certain way by the people that watch them (i. e. the public eye). A major question that we can ask ourselves is how we know whether she is this way or if people. Make her this way (i. e. by telling her, teaching her, training her, etc. ) When we think of someone"s personality traits it can be seen that there are very prominent and less prominent traits. Prominent: traits that are always seen in someone. These are the traits that strongly describes a person. It can be said that a person is always these traits. Less prominent: traits that the person still has, but can only be seen sometimes. These traits describe someone"s personality only in certain circumstances. Both these categories of traits are a part of a person, but some (prominent) are stronger than others (less prominent). The average person cares about somebody else"s personality for a variety of reasons;