PSYCH101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Agreeableness, Collective Unconscious, Libido

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Steve Joordan

Document Summary

Personality characteristic pattern of thinking, interacting, and reacting that is unique to each individual, and remain relatively consistent over time and situations. Idiographic approach meaning that they focus on creating detailed descriptions of individuals and their unique personality characteristics. Nomothetic approach examines personality in large groups of people, which examines personality in large groups of people, with the aim of making generalizations about personality structure. Personality traits which are labels applied to specific attributes of personality, such as shy , cheerful , outgoing , and adventurous . Factor analysis reveals statistical similarities among a wide variety of items. Terms friendly, warm and kind have similar meaning. These related traits can be grouped in a cluster, referred to as a factor. Raymond cattell narrowed the list of key personality traits to 16. Mccrae and costa, creators of the neo personality inventory, reduced personality to five major dimensions, called the five factor model.