PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Raymond Cattell, Gordon Allport, Factor Analysis

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jordan Poppenk

Document Summary

Personality: a particular pattern of behaviour and thinking that prevails across time and situations and differentiates one person from another, the study of personality focuses on describing stable differences among individuals. Personality traits: describes a person"s habitual patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving, how a person is most of the time . Explain research to identify personality traits by allport, cattell, and the five-factor model. Gordon allport: interested in determining the basic traits to describe all personality types, 18,000 adjectives that could describe personality. Factor analysis: statistical analysis that examines all of the correlations between all of the items and determines if any of them are highly correlated with each other, ex. 16 pf questionnaire: multiple choice personality questionnaire developed by. Cattell to measure 16 normal adult personality dimensions. Big five: five personality dimension derived from analyses of the natural- language terms people use to describe themselves and others.