PSY 505 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Dwight Schrute, Quaker Oats Company, Lincoln Town Car
12 Dec 2016
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Does everyone have unique traits or are there traits that are universal. The work of freud and jung amounted scienti cally to a disaster (cattell, 1965): foundations for trait psychology were laid by three investigators : gordon allport, raymon cattell, hans eysenck. Intro to trait theories ii: we all talk about personality constantly , personality trait terms - words that describe people"s typical styles of experience and action (201, these are words that describe people"s typical styles of experience and action: Playful , honest , humble, likable, generous, etc. Much of our language consists of these words; -ous -ful -able -est words. The idea of traits are so completely pervasive in our society its hard to ignore: there is more to personality than traits, traits aka. Consistency - the trait describes a regularity in the person"s behaviour , but this does mean all the time.
