PSY 217 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Social Influence, Extraversion And Introversion, Likert Scale
1 Mar 2018
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Personality: person"s behavior is consistent across time and in different situations, that the person"s behavior is distinctive. Personality - individual"s unique combination of consistent behavioral traits. Research on personalities recognizes that ppl are different. Finding effective ways of measuring individual differences in personality. Coming up with theories that explain why personalities differ. Self-report inventory - personality tests that ask individuals to answer a series of questions about their ability to answer a series of quesions about their characteristic behavior. Likert scale - rating from 1 (strongly disagree) to 5 (strongly agree) Some personality traits should be highly correlated. Someone who is cheerful is probably also optimistic, enthusiastic. Factor analysis - mathematical procedure for clustering together sets personality traits (called factors) that are highly correlated. 2 five-factor model proposes that just 5 traits are adequate: openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism. Some evidence that big 5 traits are inherited.
