Lecture 1: Intro to Personality Psychology Flashcards
What is personality?
Personality is an evolved solution to life’s perennial problems
How does personality work?
Personality functions by influencing our perceptions, motivations, emotions, and actions which shapes the way individuals experience and perceive the world.
Why learn about personality?
We are situation in a social world and must contend with other personalities.
How can learning about personality psychology help with?
By learning to understand yourself and those around you to help you can interact more harmoniously with others and excel in cooperative endeavors.
Why do personalities exist?
We are creatures with limited cognitive resources so we rely on how our personalities influence our perceptions instead of paying attention to objective facts.
Who invented the Invisible Gorilla experiment?
Dr. Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons
What do our personalities do to our perceptual system?
they prime our perceptual system to pay attention to certain kinds of things that influence our motivations, emotions, actions, and cognition.
What is the biggest contributor to the diversity among people?
personality differences
