BIOA02H3 Study Guide - Egotism, George Herbert Mead, Hazel Rose Markus

• School: UTSC
• Department: Biological Sciences
• Course: BIOA02H3
• Professor: Jamie Donaldson

Document Summary

Personality: an individual"s characteristic style of behaving, thinking and feeling. Personality: what it is and how it is measured: Explanations of personality differences are concerned with: prior events that can shape an individuals" personality, anticipated events that might motivate the person to reveal particular personality characteristics. The anticipated events emphasize that person"s own perspective and are intimate and personal in the reflection of the person"s inner life. Personality psychologists study questions of how our personalities are determined by the forces in our mind, in our hereditary and in our environment and by the goals we seek. The research combines these answers to gain a gene real sense of the individual"s personality. How is the report created: you collect sets of self-descriptive statements that indicate different degrees of personality characteristics. Then you add up the number of statement that endorses that trait subtracted by the endorse that doesn"t indicate.