PSYC 3350 Lecture 10: Lecture 10

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3350
• Professor: Ingrid L.Stefanovic

Document Summary

The big five : english language has about 18,000 personality trait words, costa and mccrae (1992) argue that 5 personality factors underlie those traits ( big five ), measured using the neo pi r influence people"s behaviours across situations, o = openness to experience, c = conscientiousness, e = extraversion, a = agreeableness, n = neuroticism, a cross cultural investigation of 50 cultures (mostly students, tried to get as many people as they could and they were all undergrad students, similar 5 factor structure emerged in each culture, the neo pi r was created using english terms, research based on translations of english terms, is a test to measure personality to find the big 5, would the same set of personality factors emerge from indigenous sets of personality traits, indigenous isn"t aboriginal people but the people bottom up in a country.