PSY 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Trait Theory, Extraversion And Introversion, Neuroticism

• School: University of Kentucky
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 100
• Professor: Andrea Friedrich

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Personologists claim that we can best understand the differences between individuals by: personality traits: enduring dispositions in behavior that show differences across understanding their personality traits. If they are talkative at home, they tend also to be talkative at work: stability. Individuals with a trait are also somewhat stable over time in behaviors related to the trait. If they are talkative at 30, they will also tend to be talkative at 40. Therefore, if we want to know which personality traits are most important, we can look to the language that people use to describe themselves and others. If we want to understand the fundamental ways in which people differ from one another, we can turn to the words that people use to describe one another. Other traits beyond the five-factor model: some suggest that there are more than five major traits, or perhaps even fewer, hexaco model: the hexaco model is an alternative to the five-