PSYC 370 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Carpool, Inverse Relation, T-Groups
16 Dec 2017
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Trait theorists are looking for the basic building blocks of personality. Allport, cattell, eysenck were the original trait theorists. Lexical hypothesis individual differences that are most salient and socially relevant will come to be encoded into the natural language so they begin by coding trait terms that are found in the dictionary. Step 1: look in dictionary to code trait terms. Step 2: have people do many questionnaires and analyze the data. Multiple, independent teams of researchers have arrived at 5 dimensional traits (including. All have used cattell"s factor analysis cattell may be intellectual father of big five. These 5 traits are the building blocks of personality. The big five are also cross-cultural have been replicated in many different languages. Openness to experience: receptive to new ideas, approaches and experiences. Agreeableness: concern for others, to have warm and trusting sentiments. Conscientiousness: organized, persistence and motivation in goal-directed behavior. Need a common language to describe personality.
