PSYC-1105EL Chapter 12.1: 12.1 Contemporary Approaches to Personality
14 Feb 2017
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Personality: a characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and behaving that is unique to each individual, and remains relatively consistent over time and situations. Idiographic approach: creating detailed descriptions of a specific person"s unique personality characteristics. Nomothetic approach: examine personality in large groups of people, with the aim of making generalizations about personality structure. Personality trait: describes a person"s habitual patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving; how that person is most of the time . Barnum effect: gave a personality test and gave every single person the same personality description. Participants found the profiles very convincing; when asked to rate how well the profile describe them, on a scale ranging from 0 (very poor) to 5 (excellent), the average rating was 4. 26. Factor analysis: is used to group items that people respond to similarly for instance, the terms friendly, warm, and kind have similar meanings, and can be grouped in a cluster, referred to as a factor.
