PSYC 2600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Lexical Hypothesis, Sociosexual Orientation, Factor Analysis
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Am i a bunch of adjectives trait-descriptive adjectives words that describe traits, attributes of a person that are characteristic of a person and perhaps enduring over time. : trait as internal causal properties vs. traits as purely descriptive summaries. Descriptive summaries: traits as descriptive summaries of a person"s attributes no assumption about internality or causality; traits are describing trends of expressed behavior without assumption of cause, allows for role of other causes (e. g. , social situations) How can we identify which traits are the most important in explaining they ways that people differ: the most important ones are those that should guide: definition of individuals, Development of measures, and research to understand and predict behavior. There are three approaches to identifying important traits. This strategy solves two problems central to the science of personality: problem of identifying key domains of individual differences, and problem of describing order or structure that exists among individual differences identified.
