PSYC 110 Study Guide - Offender Profiling, Twin, Extraversion And Introversion
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They went through the dictionary and created a list of 18,000 words that describe personality. If measurements of 3 certain traits correlate strongly with one another, we can cluster them together as a single trait. Students who score high on a neuroticism survey were more likely than others to identify their most stressful experience as one that involved conflict with another person. If we are interested in a theoretical understanding of personality, it is premature to call the big five a fact of nature. It was devised empirically that is, based on evidence rather than theory. It is used for personality assessment and for research on personality. The person is asked to make up a story for each picture, describing what is happening, what events led up to the scene, and what will happen in the future. They should be used with caution and only for the purposes for which they have demonstrable usefulness.
