PSYA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12.2: Big Five Personality Traits, Factor Analysis, Extraversion And Introversion
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12. 2 -- cultural and biological approaches to personality: weird stands for "western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic. " It appears as though that within psychology, 96% of studies are conducted mainly on a mere. 12% of the population -- the weird ones: this means that our whole "scientific" understanding of the human animal is based on studying one specific, small, subgroup, within limited places around the world, such as. Canada, the united states, australia, and western europe: thus, almost everything we know about psychology is based on research conducted within. Weird cultures: the five factor model (as discussed in 12. 1) contains factors that were researched in weird places -- canada, the united states, and europe -- meaning that it is possible that the five. In the late 1700s and into the 1800s, this was the promoted method: phrenologists believed that different personality traits were housed in different regions of the brain.
