PSYA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Extraversion And Introversion, Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences, Theodor W. Adorno
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Personality: characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and behaving that is unique to each individual, and remains relatively consistent over time and situation. Idiographic approach: creating detailed descriptions of a specific person"s unique personality characteristics: helpful for understand the self and others, and also applied to full range of human experiences. Trait perspective: personality trait: a person"s habitual patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving. Short-cut summaries as to how a person would behave most of the time. Allport created about 18 000 english words to describe different personality traits: different types of personality traits lead to personality scales, barnum effect. Believing a personality profile accurately describes you even when patently false. Explains why so many people believe horoscopes, astrologers, psychics, etc: factor analysis: used to group items that people respond to similarly. The five factor model: (cattell) trait-based theory of personality based on the finding that personality can be described using five major dimensions.
