PSYC 2130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Narcissism, Linguistic Inquiry, Correlation And Dependence

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2130
• Professor: Christa Philips

Document Summary

Personality- chapter6- using personality traits to understand behavior. Research that seeks to connect traits with behavior uses 4 basic methods: the single-trait approach: examines the link between personality and behavior by asking. Researchers attack the behavior of interest with long lists of traits intended to cover wide range. Considerable headway of the years, tries to narrow the list of those that matter: typological approach: stems from a doubt and hope. The doubt is whether it is valid to compare people with each other quantitively on the same trait dimensions. Perhaps they are so qualitatively different-because they are different types of people- that comparing their individual trait scores makes as little sense as the proverbial comparison between apples and oranges. Instead of focusing on traits directly, this approach focuses on the patterns of traits that characterize whole persons and tried to sort these patterns.