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| 1807077945 | Personality | a person's unique pattern of consistent behavioral traits | 0 | |
| 1807108138 | Aspects of Personality | 1. Consistency 2. Distinctiveness | 1 | |
| 1807108144 | Consistency | the stability of a person's behaviour over time and across situations | 2 | |
| 1807110112 | Distinctiveness | behavioural differences among people reacting to the same situation | 3 | |
| 1807111321 | Phrenology | A discredited pseudoscientific theory of the brain that claimed that personality characteristics, moral character, and intelligence could be determined by examining the bumps on a person's skull | 4 | |
| 1807114824 | Types of Personality Theory | 1. Freud (personality based on unconscious) 2. Trait Theory | 5 | |
| 1807119430 | Trait | Durable disposition to behave in a certain way in a variety of situations. | 6 | |
| 1807151783 | Factor Analysis | correlations among many variables are analyzed to identify closely-related clusters of variables. Complex statistical procedure | 7 | |
| 1807152692 | Basic Trait | one personality trait that describes a several superficial traits (bringing them together to fit in one category) | 8 | |
| 1807178061 | normal distribution | Bell shaped graph with two extremes on the outlier, majority in the middle | 9 | |
| 1807179940 | Eysenck Dimension of Personality | Spectrum of personality traits: introverted or extroverted | 10 | |
| 1807186100 | Introvert | Eysenck: high psychological or mental arousal * biologically determined | 11 | |
| 1807190601 | Extrovert | Eysenck: low psychological or mental arousal * biologically determined | 12 | |
| 1807229645 | 5 Factor Model of Personality | McCrae and Costa- The Big 5: 1 Conscientiousness 2. Agreeableness 3. Neuroticism (emotional stability vs instability) 4. Openness 5. Extraversion | 13 | |
| 1807262490 | Stability | Personality traits are stable | 14 | |
| 1807266447 | Walter Mischel | the way you act is often situation dependent 1. Unfamiliar and Formal situation- traits wouldn't surface 2. Familiar and informal situation traits will surface | 15 | |
| 1807284887 | Traits and settings | Traits are predicable over many different situations but they can't predict behaviour in any one given situation | 16 | |
| 1807297333 | Bandura Social Cognitive Theory | -off shoot of behaviourism -Behaviour related to cognition. Before we behave, we think about situation | 17 | |
| 1807299575 | Skinner | people show consistent patterns of behaviour because they have stable response tendencies that are tied to the situation. Beaviour is mechanic | 18 | |
| 1807316528 | Reciprocal Determinism | Bandura: internal personal factors (cognitive process or traits), environmental factors and behaviour all influence one another | 19 |
