PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: 16Pf Questionnaire, Extraversion And Introversion, Conscientiousness
5 Oct 2015
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Personality: characteristic, personality should predict behaviour, trait vs. state a state is a mood can predict the way we feel and think, pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting trait is what we associate with personality. Trait theories: focus on identifying the key dimensions of personality, gordon allport"s conversation with freud, modern trait theories uses factor analysis to find correlations among behaviours, reflect basic dimension or trait, each dimension reflects a continuum of behaviour. 16pf: cattell"s sixteen personality factors, found 16 basic behaviour clusters through factor analysis, can be reduced to 5 global factors, extraversion (social preference, anxiety (emotional stability, tough-mindedness (openness to new ideas) Eysenck"s model: eysenck"s extraversion stability model, stability-instability (use to be stability-neuroticism) Introversion-extroversion: refers to emotional stability, these two traits were though to be independent of each other and produce various combinations of traits , third trait added later, psychoticism-self-control, eysenck personality wheel:
