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Ch 1 Introduction to personality (class 1&2) Flashcards

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Describe Mood (in contrast with personality)

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Mood is :

  1. Short lasting
  2. Quick to change
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Describe Personality (in contrast with Mood)

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Personality is :

  1. Enduring
  2. Affects across Dif environments
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What is a Psychological trait

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  1. Description of how someone generally behaves

2. Ways ppl differ.

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Why do we focus on traits?

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  1. Descriptive
  2. Explain behaviour
  3. Predict behaviours
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What does personality influence when interacting with the environment

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  1. Perceptions
  2. Selections
  3. Evocations
  4. Manipulations
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Explain the ways an individual affects the environment through 1. Perceptions

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Perceptions : How personality shapes what we see and how

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Explain the ways an individual affects the environment through 2. Selections

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  1. Selections : How our personality skewed perceptions to make us chose our environment
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Explain the ways an individual affects the environment through 3. Evocations

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  1. Evocations : How our personalities can make others react
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Explain the ways an individual affects the environment through 4. Manipulations

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  1. Manipulations : How ppl can start to act differently because of our personality
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Different 3 levels of personality analysis

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  1. Human nature
  2. Individual & Grp diff
  3. Individual Uniqueness
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Describe the 1. human nature level of personality analysis

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  1. Human nature : How we are all alike

EX. Speech

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Describe the 2. individual & group difference level of personality analysis

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  1. individual & group difference : How we are similar & differ to others in groups

EX Introvert vs Extrovert.

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Describe the 3. Individual Uniqueness level of personality analysis

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  1. Individual uniqueness

EX My unique quirks …

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What do we look at when talking about the dispositional … look at personality

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Ways individuals differ from one another

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3 parts of the Biological …

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  1. Genetics
  2. Psychophysiological
  3. Evolution
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16
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Biological
1. Genetics

What genetics questions interests personality researchers

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  1. Are we predisposed to certain personalities
17
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Biological
1. Genetics

What genetics questions interests personality researchers

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  1. How environment & innate characteristic interact to influence personality
18
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Biological
2. Psychophysiological

What psychophysiological questions interests personality researchers

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  1. Can we track personality through the body’s responses
19
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Biological
2. Psychophysiological

What psychophysiological questions interests personality researchers

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  1. Can our personality affect how our body work
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Biological
2. Psychophysiological

What psychophysiological questions interests personality researchers

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  1. What is the strength of the stress response and how does this interact
21
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Biological
3. Evolution

What is Evolutionionary psychology tell us about behaviours

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The Behaviours that exist are the ones who helped us survive

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Biological
3. Evolution

What evolution questions interest personality researchers

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Why do we have some traits?

Why do they exist?

23
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Biological
3. Evolution

What evolution questions interest personality researchers

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Why are mal adaptive traits still around?

24
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What is the Intrapsychic …

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Focus on Internal mechanism of psychology
Beyond our awareness (unconscious)
Psychoanalytic

25
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What is Cognitive Experiential focus on

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Focus on conscious aspect of personality

Role of past history and experiences

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What does the Socio Cultural approach tell us

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Internal aspect of personality but is also affected by environment (culture, social groups)

27
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Adjustment …

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Investigates how personality helps us adapt and survive to the world

28
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Theories are in two parts

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Based in scientific methodology

Contain 3 key elements of science
1. Testable 2. Replicable 3. Valid

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Beliefs are

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Not based in scientific methodology

Can be important, provide guidance, faith, connection

30
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What makes a good theory

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Pushes science forward

Sense to the world, organizing known effects

Allows to predict behaviours in the real world

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