PSYC 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Personal Unconscious, Anal Stage, Collective Unconscious
2 Feb 2016
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The five-factor model: dispositions and dimensions, extraversion. Someone who"s worried, anxious, insecure, hostile, gregarious: neuroticism irratible, openness to experience, agreeableness satisfied, cooperative, conscientiousness. Someone who is imaginative, independent, flexible in their thinking, open personality. The concept of personality is used to explain the stability in a person"s behaviour over time and across situations (consistency) and the behavioural differences among people reacting to the same situation (distinctiveness). Personality refers to an individual"s unique constellation of consistent behavioural traits. A personality trait is a durable disposition to behave in a particular way in a variety of situations; adjectives like honest, moody, impulsive, and excitable describe dispositions that represent personality traits. In the 1950s and 1960s, raymond cattell used the procedure of factor analysis correlating many variables to identify closely related clusters of variables to reduce gordon allport"s (1937) list of thousands of personality traits to just 16 basic dimensions.
