PSY230H1 Lecture Notes - 16Pf Questionnaire, Lexical Hypothesis, Raymond Cattell
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The trait approach: pg 262- 298, every man is in certain respects (a) like all other men (b) like some other man (c) like no other man. Were all similar in certain ways and diff in certain ways. Trait approach: trait, a dimension of personality used to categorize people according to the degree to which they manifest a particular characteristic, a stable way of relating to oneself and others. Trait approach: sometimes describes the psychological differences between individuals in terms of special dimensions invented by psychologists, more often, the trait approach is based on ordinary language, ex. Based on empirical research, mostly correlational in nature: 2. It focuses exclusively on individual differences: can it be used to predict behavior, no zero point, absolute sense of a trait, only relative (more or less nervous, etc. , always relative to a diff score. The person-situation debate: what is more important for determining what people do - person or situation, (which has greater effect)
