PSYC20009 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Conscientiousness, Internal Consistency, Extraversion And Introversion

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30 Jul 2018
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What is personality: definitions, regularities in behaviour and experience (deyoung & gray, 2009, a person"s typical mode of response (pervin, 1999, our identity and our reputation (hogan, 2008) Cattell (1943: reduced lexical hypothesis to 16pf solution, 18,000 descriptors sorted into 160 clusters of synonyms/antomyms discard near-identical descriptors 100 participants rate 1-2 friends on the 171 descriptors. Interpersonal responses: bold & assertive, talkative & sociable, not necessarily nice/kind: emotional responses: experience positive affect & energy, agreeable. Hierarchical structure of traits: meta-traits: very broad stability; plasticity, domains: e. g. big 5 v. 2, big 5 aspects scales, aspects: e. g. assertiveness, enthusiasm, facets: e. g. energy levels, positive emotions, talkativeness, nuances: very narrow e. g. liking parties. Self-report personality tests: most commonly used, need to test reliability, validity. Stability of personality: stability is integral to the concept of personality, 2 kinds of stability, rank-order: relative position in sample, mean-level: average of the sample/population.

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