PSYA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Reaction Formation, Superior Temporal Sulcus, Karen Horney
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Personality: a characterisic patern of thinking, feeling, and behaving that is unique to each individual, and remains relaively consistent over ime and situaions. Creaing detailed descripions of a speciic person"s unique personality characterisic: nomotheic approach. Examine personality in large groups of people, with the aim of making generalizaions about personality structure. Personality trait: a person"s habitual paterns of thinking, feeling and behaving. Personality tests have litle validity, since we can easily adjust to certain personaliies depending on the situaion. Factor analysis: used to group items that people respond to similarly, example: kind, warm, friendly = grouped together. Raymond catell: narrowed the list of key personality traits to 16 = simplifying and standardizing the number of dimensions psychologists needed to describe the composiion of personality. Mccrae and costa: created the five factor model. A trait-based theory of personality based on the inding that personality can be described using ive major dimensions (o. c. e. a. n: openness. High = creaive, arisic, curious, imaginaive, nonconforming.
