PSYO 1012 Lecture 16: Personality-Trait Theories
28 Feb 2016
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Each pattern is associated with different personality traits. On average, the images are 4. 5/6 representative of peoples personalities. Did a study with university students where he gave fake feedback on horoscopes. It one of these three: you have a great need for others to like and admire you, you have a tendency to be critical of yourself, you are generally able to compensate them. All of these example are very vague and apply to almost everyone. Forer effect: thinking that vague statements are accurate. He found that people will generally accept statements about themselves without criticism when they are positive. The most important individual differences in humans will come to be encoded as single words in language . Thus, by classifying the words into similar themes or groups, we can develop a way to summarize human personality. There are almost 18 000 english words to describe personality traits.
