PSYA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Reaction Formation, Albert Bandura, Great Tit

• School: UTSC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYA02H3
• Professor: Kyle Danielson

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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. Raymond cattell: use factor analysis -> narrow personality trait to 16. Mccrae and costa: create five factor model (ffm) - trait-based theory of personality based on finding that personality can be described using 5 major dimensions.