PSYC 305 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Extraversion And Introversion, Operationalization, Big Five Personality Traits
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Defining personality: conception of what everyone"s personality consists of. Why study it: descriptive goal: challenging to characterize someones personality, explanitory goal: how to explain personality, predictive goal: use personality to predict response. 2. individual differences (no two people the same intrapersonal functioning (personality guides your actions in various circumstances) determines how you value different motivesm which many believe determines how you act. Theories: definition: proposed explanation/interpretation of the relationship between constructs. 2 purposes of a theory: organize and explain observations, suggest/predict new info (this is hard theories (esp broad ones) uually have ambiguity so the prediction is unclear. Breadth of info behind theory (based on fact) Parsimony include as few assumptions as possible, simple (dont have to apply this too rigidly some assumptions are ok) Subjective analysis does the theory "feel" good. Conceptual of hypothetical variable that can"t be directly observed ie: optimism, self-esteem, intelligence. Unstructured self-report: 20 statements (i am ______ over and over)
