PSYA02H3 Chapter 12: PsyA02 Ch.12
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Sam gosling: examine office & bedroom -> match personality. Personality: characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling & behaving that is unique to each individual, & remains relatively consistent over time & situations. Idiographic approach: creating detailed descriptions of a spec person s unique personality characteristics e. g. maslow used it to examine successful & Nomothetic approach: examine personality in large gps of ppl w/ aim of making generalisations abt personality struc // diff ppl w/ same characteristic. Personality trait: a spec psych characteristic that makes up pt of a person s personality i. e. how s that person @ most of the time. Gordon allport: 1st attempt to list out all possible traits -> <18000. Barnum effect: ppl convinced that a personality profile describes them well even when it is vague (proof) bertram forer: give participants a personality test -> give them same personality description -> highly convinced. 9 e. g. friendly & warm & kind = 1 factor.
