PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Rorschach Test, Authoritarianism, Inferiority Complex
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Personality = characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and behaving that is unique to each individual, and remains relatively consistent over time and situations. Personality trait = a person"s habitual patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving. Barnum effect = when people easily believe that a personality pro le describes them well even when it is false and wasn"t generated to describe them at all. Factor analysis = used to group items that people respond to similarly (i. e. the terms friendly , warm , and kind have similar meanings and can be clustered as a factor) The five factor model = a trait-based theory of personality based on the nding that personality can be described using 5 major dimensions. Evil: theodore adorno: authoritarian personality = rigid and dogmatic in their thinking (us vs them, honesty-humility. Michael ashton developed the hexaco model of personality = 6 factor theory that replicates the 5 factors of the ffm and adds one additional factor (h-h)
