PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Nomothetic, Trait Theory, Barnum Effect
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Personality is a person"s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and behaving that is unique to each individual, and remains consistent over time and situations. A personality trait describes a specific psychological characteristic that makes up part of a person"s personality. Trait descriptors are useful as shortcuts to understanding people. Traits summarize a great deal of information and helps to predict how a person will behave across a range of situations. A state is a temporary physical or psychological engagement that influences behaviour. Is an individual"s characteristic style of: behaviour, thought, feeling. Similarities between personalities in different situations (eg: classroom or club) Can predict ways how people will behave in old age compared to how they behaved in childhood. Study of personality is: idiographic approach - individual differences - focuses on creating detailed descriptions of a specific person"s unique personality characteristics.
