PSY 393 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Extraversion And Introversion, Authoritarianism, Conscientiousness
Document Summary
Lexical hypothesis: important aspects of human life will be labeled with words; if something is truly important and universal, many words for it will exist in all languages. Provides route to find which personality traits are the most important. Began with gordon allport identifying thousands of personality-descriptive words. Donald fiske (1949) found 5 factors that may have been the first emergence of the list big five. Big 5 has consistently been present in samples/studies. Integration of numerous separate traits found by other psychologists. Factor analysis: categorization! compiles divergent traits under a few common labels: complex! Traits are orthogonal getting a high/low score on any one trait does not determine the high/low score of another trait. Traits may vary by geographical region, culture, gender: highly agreeable people found on east coast, women score higher than men on neuroticism, extraversion, agreeableness, and conscientiousness. Traits: neuroticism, extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and openness/intellect.
