PS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Theophrastus, Extraversion And Introversion, Agreeableness
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Distinctive and relatively enduring ways of thinking, feeling, and acting that characterize a person"s response to situations: comes from word persona - actors mask. Historical knowledge of individual di erences: theophrastus wrote about di erent characters to try to describe individual di erences, attempting to characterize people - their personalities. Personality assessment: interviews, structured set of standardized questions, note other behaviours - appearance, speech patterns etc. , drawbacks, characteristics of interviewer can a ect answers, dependence on co-operation, honesty of interviewee. Behavioural assessment: need explicit coding system, aim is not solely to describe behaviour, speci c behaviour, frequency, speci c situations, under what conditions, inter-judge reliability, hight level of agreement among observers. Personality scales: objective measures, use standard questions & agreed upon scoring key. Disadvantage: validity of answers (truthfully answered?, validity scales. Personality assessment: personality scales item, trait theories, based on theoretical conception of trait, concern - have to identify what are the underlying traits that describe people.
