HPS121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Dark Triad, Hans Eysenck, Albert Bandura
22 Aug 2018
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Personality refers to the distrinct and relatively enduring ways of thinking, feeling and acting that characterise a persons response to life situations. Personality trait are relatively stable cognitive, emotional, and behavioural chracteristics of people that help establish their individual identities and distinguish them from others. Two broad ways of identifying and defining personality traits: lexical approach, factor analytic. Introversion: retiring, reserved, likes solitary activities, does not attend parties, socially unassertive. Extraversion: outgoing and talkative, wants many friends, enjoys parties, dislikes solitary activities, dominates social situations. Raymond cattell studied personality factors: asking participants to rate themselves, accomplices to rate participants, conducting objective observation. Differences between artists and athletes, more more intelligent artists. Costa a(cid:374)d m(cid:272)crae(cid:859)s (cid:894)(cid:1006)00(cid:1007)(cid:895) resear(cid:272)h i(cid:374)di(cid:272)ated fi(cid:448)e higher order fa(cid:272)tors. Five may seem like a little but there can be many combinations of these traits. Argued that normal personality can be understood using two dimensions.
