PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Conscientiousness, Determinism, Heritability

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

Document Summary

Chapter 12 personality: theory, research, and assessment. Personality used to explain why not everyone acts the same way in similar situations. Each person has different personality different traits seen in other people, but each individual has his or her own distinctive set of personality traits. Concept of personality: stability in a person"s behaviour over time and across situations (consistency, the behavioural differences among people reacting to the same situation. Personality: refers to an individuals unique constellation of consistent behavioural traits. Personality trait: durable disposition to behave in a particular way in a variety of situations. Small number of fundamental traits, determine other, more superficial traits. The five-factor model of personality traits (the big five theory: extraversion emotionality, neuroticism: more in response to stress than others unconventional attitudes fosters liberalism, openness to experience, agreeableness: Big five traits are predictive of specific aspects behaviour found to be related to feelings of subjective.