Personality Is a Relatively Stable Pattern of Behaviours and Internal

question 176

True/False

Personality is a relatively stable pattern of behaviours and internal states that help explain a person's behavioural tendencies.

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Definitions:

Self-Disclosure

Purposefully providing information about yourself to others that they would not learn if you did not tell them.

Social Penetration

A theory that describes how interpersonal relationships develop through gradual sharing of deeper and more personal information.

Filtering

Process of reducing the number of partners at each stage of relational development by applying selection criteria.

Dyadic Effect

The reciprocal nature of self-disclosure: “You disclose to me, and I’ll disclose to you.”