AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Personality traits reflect people’s characteristic patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.

Detailed explanation-2: -Personality refers to the enduring characteristics and behavior that comprise a person’s unique adjustment to life, including major traits, interests, drives, values, self-concept, abilities, and emotional patterns.

Detailed explanation-3: -Trait. A characteristic pattern of behavior or a disposition to feel. and act, as assessed by self-report inventories and peer. reports.

Detailed explanation-4: -Motivational traits are stable, nonability characteristics that influence the direction, intensity, and persistence of individuals’ goal-directed behaviors across situations. Motivational traits are thought to affect behavior through task-specific motivation and self-regulation.

Detailed explanation-5: -A trait, as related to genetics, is a specific characteristic of an individual. Traits can be determined by genes, environmental factors or by a combination of both. Traits can be qualitative (such as eye color) or quantitative (such as height or blood pressure).