PSYC 2740 Lecture 4: W2 L2
13 Feb 2018
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Recall that a trait is a characteristic, attributes, and qualities describing how people differ (or are similar) Refers to an average tendency and is relatively enduring. Desires/needs carry across settings and are presumed to be causal. All help to rule out other causes for behaviour. Traits are descriptive summaries of ones attributes without assuming internality/causality. Not explaining why people do what they do. Just saying these behaviours go with this trait. Deduce from actions that go with trait which ones are most frequent by recording frequency. Identifies acts relating to most traits ffer lity t by. Help study the meaning of hard to study traits. No account for amount of context applies only to overt acts. Certain behaviours may not be displayed in certain contexts. Lexical hypothesis: all key individual differences (if they are indeed important) are encoded within our language over time. The more synonyms we have the more likely it is a relevant traits.
