PS100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Extraversion And Introversion, Iceberg, Agreeableness
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People will just click with some people, and have issues with others due to personality. Theophrastus wrote about different characters to try and describe individual differences. Attempting to characterize people their personalities. Distinctive and relatively enduring ways of thinking, feeling, and acting that characterize a person"s response to situations. Comes from the word persona actors mask. Note other behaviours appearance, speech patterns etc. Dependence on the co-operation, honestly of interviewee. Aim is not solely to describe" behaviours. Specific behaviours, frequency, specific situations, under what conditions. Use standard questions & agreed upon scoring key. Concern have to identify what are the underlying traits that describe people. Number of traits measured varies by test. Differences across people come from within the person. Cartell gave way more to modern tests which have fewer traits. Extraversion, neuroticism, openness to experience, agreeableness, conscientiousness. Based on responses by normals" and psychiatric patients. Minnesota multiphasic personality inventory (mmpi); revised = mmpi-2. Environment inpacts on you you respond.
