PSYC 332 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Repeated Measures Design, Blackboard, Extraversion And Introversion
20 Jul 2016
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The number one biggest challenge to personality psychologists- behavioural oriented psychologists/social psychologists would highlight that we are not that consistent in our behaviours, and trait implies that there is a generalized consistency. We will often be struck when someone behaves diff. , we may also notice it in ourselves. The currency of everyday trait talk is the generalization. Natural to use trait terms to describe other people, the currency is we generalize. They may be true or useful in a relative sense but they do not apply to every instance of a person"s behaviour. Nobody, no matter how strong on a given trait, is perfectly consistent; no single trait can characterize any person; life offers to many situations for people to do the same thing in each one. Despite its important limitations, trait talk is a useful and natural way to account for human individuality.
