PSYC 1013 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Big Five Personality Traits, Twin, Social Cognitive Theory
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A characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling an behaving that is unique to each individual and remains relatively consistent over time and situations. Idiographic approach (cid:272)(cid:396)eati(cid:374)g detailed des(cid:272)(cid:396)iptio(cid:374)s of a spe(cid:272)ifi(cid:272) pe(cid:396)so(cid:374)"s u(cid:374)i(cid:395)ue pe(cid:396)so(cid:374)alit(cid:455) characteristics. People who lived up to their fullest potential self-actualized maslow. Nomothetic approach examine personality in large groups of people with the aim of making generalizations about personality structure. Understand the factors that predict certain behaviours across people in general. Personality trait a pe(cid:396)so(cid:374)"s ha(cid:271)itual patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving. How that person is most of the time. Gordon allport 18 000 words to describe an i(cid:374)di(cid:448)idual"s ph(cid:455)si(cid:272)al a(cid:374)d ps(cid:455)(cid:272)hologi(cid:272)al attributes. Developed a theory of personality structure by organizing these words into traits. Attempted to identify and measure the key personality traits (cid:862)the ba(cid:396)(cid:374)u(cid:373) effe(cid:272)t(cid:863) remarkably easy for people to be convinced with that a personality profile describes them well.
