PSY 505 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Divergent Thinking, Lowkey, Situation Two
9 Dec 2020
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Trait theories ii the big five (online) Is big five nature or nurture and do we all possess each of them to varying degrees: the person-situation controversy, evaluation of trait approaches. The big-five factors: costa & mccrae (1992) neo-pi-r, openness to experience. Closedness vs openness to new experiences: conscientiousness. Lack of direction vs. conscientiousness: extroversion. O-c-e-a-n (john, 1990: goldberg (1992) adjective inventories, self-report ratings of big five factors. Same overall factors as costa & mccrae above. But c&m and goldberg developed different ways to measure it : goldberg - bipolar (e. g. opposites) ratings (using adjectives) (defined by test popn. My big five factor scores: how much do you deviate from a score of 25 on each, over 25 more of trait, under 25 less of trait. Openness to experience: sample items from neo-pi-r (costa and mccrae) I do not have a good imagination. (reversed)
