01:830:338 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Psychoticism, Neuroticism, Extraversion And Introversion

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:338
• Professor: J.Hudson

Document Summary

Single trait approach- examines the link between personality and behavior by asking. What do people like that do (that refers to a certain trait) Side of single trait approach; it answers the question: who likes to do that kind of behavior . Females who have depression are described as: Males who have depression are described as: Conservative- feeling guilty, anxious, and unable to handles stress well as children. Liberal- resourceful, independent, self-reliant, and confident children. Authoritarian- uncooperative, inflexible, likely to obey to command. Essential-trait approach- addresses the difficult question: which traits are the most important. Taxonomy- have to form an organized scheme of these traits -- similar to factor analysis. Typology approach- comes from doubt and hope; doubt is for if it is really valid to compare people with e/o quantitatively on the same trait. Hope is that researchers can identify groups of people who resemble each other.