PSY 3303 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Absolute Continuity, Big Two, Big Five Personality Traits

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3303
• Professor: Dave Miranda

Document Summary

Personality traits are always in comparison to others, so you can be more extraverted than average or less. Personality traits are a way to study diversity. Big five = family of personality traits. Most important traits will be encoded in some or all of the world"s languages. Personality traits were not popular in the 70s. Goldberg, in particular, popularized the words big five . There are always five factors, five categories of traits, always pop up in factor analysis. Traits are straightforward because they come from evolution and our common language. They are practical and convenient because they can be accessed using self-report questionnaires. They are very reliable, so they can be replicated in different settings and cultures. One of the most popular personality theories (but not necessarily the best) Right now, people try to figure out the links between the big five and everything else in psychology.