PSYC 383 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Psychological Types, Heterosexuality, Content Validity
9 Jul 2016
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Personality traits and the inventories that measure them. Personality trait: differences among individuals in a typical tendency to behave, think, or feel in some conceptually related ways, across a variety of relevant situations and across some fairly long period of time. Personality traits vs other psychological characteristics not personality traits: mental abilities, believes and attitudes, sexuality. Hartshorne and may - 1928 examined behaviours of 11,000 elementary and hs students observed in variety of situations in which individual differences in traits of. Moral character would emerge (altruism, self-control, honesty) many children who were altruistic/self-controlled/honest in one situation was not in another (r < . 20) (note: r between two single situations) :/ because didn"t not notice cross-situational consistency when observations were averaged across many situations. Mischel and peake (1982) studied conscientiousness of college students indicators of conscientiousness weakly correlated with the others (~. 13)
