Psychology: The Science of Mind and Behaviour 7th Edition

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Secondary traits are less consistent and influential than central traits and refer to tastes, preferences, political persuasions, reactions to particular situations, and so on. It’s the gender that gives us a sense of personal identity as male or female (Wade and Tavris, 1994). All our experience … is actually mediated or filtered through a psychological lens, our perceiving apparatus. Attribution theory deals with the general principles governing how we select and use the information to arrive at causal explanations for behavior.

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