All personality psychology terms

trait descriptive adjectives

words that describe traits, attributes of a person that are reasonable characteristic of the individual and perhaps even enduring over time

personality

the set of psychological traits and mechanisms within the individual that are organized and relatively enduring and that influence his or her interactions with, and adaptations to, the environment (including physical, intrapsychic, and social)

psychological traits

characteristics that describe ways in which people are unique or different or similar to each other

average tendencies

tendency to display a certain psychological trait with regularity

psychological mechanisms

refer to the process of personality that involve some information processing ability that influences their sensitivity to info (input) think about specific options (decision rules) and guide behavior toward certain actions (outputs)

within the individual

people carry the sources of their personality inside themselves-and hence are stable over time and consistent over situations.

organized

psychological traits and mechanisms for a given person are not a random collection of elements

enduring

when psychological traits are stable over time

influential forces

personality traits and mechanisms influence our actions, how we view ourselves, think about the world, interact with others, feel, select environments, what goals and desires to pursue, and how to react to circumstances

person environment interaction

a persons interactions with situations include perceptions, selections, evocations, and manipulations

adaptation

solutions to the survival and reproductive problems posed by hostile forces of nature

human nature

the traits and mechanisms of personality that are typical of our species and are possessed by everyone or nearly everyone

individual differences

all the ways in which individuals can differ from others

difference among groups

people in one group may have certain personality features in common and these common features make that group different from other groups

nomothetic

general characters of people as they distributed in the population usually through statistical comparisons of individuals or groups

idiographic

single individuals with an effort to observe general principles are they manifest in a life over time

domain of knowledge

a specialty area when psychologists have focused on some specific and limited aspect of human nature

dispositional domain

personality influenced by traits the person is born with and how they develop over time, ways in which individuals differ from one another