PSY 235 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: 16Pf Questionnaire, Surgency, Impulsivity
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Beginnings of the modern trait approach: carl jung, typology, small number of types, each person best fits one type, 8 types (4 functions, 2 attitudes, functions- sensing, thinking, feeling, intuiting, attitudes- introversion, extroversion. Raymond b. cattell: used (and refined) factor analysis, data driven, not theory driven, reduced many different traits to sixteen trait clusters, surface traits- obvious/ observable traits, source traits- underlying traits that influenced cluster. 16 personality factors questionnaire (16 pf: collected many types of data, q data: based on questionnaires, standardized self report, t data: objective tests, l data: life stories, observations from others. The big five: extroversion (surgency, sociability, warmth, assertiveness, aggreeableness, straight forwardness, trust, altruism, modesty, concientiousness (lack of impulsivity, competence, persistence, prudence, neuroticism (emotional instability, anxiety, hastility, depression, vulnerability, openess (openess to experience, culture, intellect, imagination, aesthetic, curiosity. I am not much interested in other peoples problems (reverse coded) I am calm most of the time (reverse coded)
