PSYC 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter Module 12.1: Authoritarian Personality, B. F. Skinner, Neuroticism

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Paula Barata

Document Summary

The key terms associated with contemporary approaches to personality. The big five personality traits to understand your own personality. The relative roles of personality traits and psychological and physical states in determining behaviour. Personality: a characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and behaving that is unique to each individual, and remains relatively consistent over time and situations. The barnum effect: the personality profile is patently false and was not generated to describe the individual at all, but they are still convinced that it matches them. Factor analysis: used to group items that people respond to similarly: such as: friendly, warm and kind they can be grouped in a cluster and called a factor. Raymond carrell narrowed the list of personality traits to 16. Mccrae and costa created the 5-factor model. The(cid:455) p(cid:396)ide the(cid:373)sel(cid:448)es fo(cid:396) (cid:271)ei(cid:374)g (cid:862)p(cid:396)a(cid:272)ti(cid:272)al. (cid:863: prefer things to be straight forward and approach new things defensively.