PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Self-Control, 16Pf Questionnaire, Factor Analysis
20 Dec 2016
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Characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and behaving (that is unique to each individual), and remains relatively consistent over time and situation. Personality should predict behaviour: nomothetic approach (vs an idiographic approach) Trait: a relatively stable, enduring predisposition to consistently behave in a certain way. Trait theory: theory of personality; focuses on identifying, describing, measuring individual differences in behavioural predispositions. Focuses on identifying the key dimensions of personality. Modern trait theories uses factor analysis to find correlations among behaviours: reflect basic dimensions or traits, each dimension (or trait) reflects a continuum of behaviour. Psychoanalytic: childhood experiences, unconscious motives, sexual instincts. Humanistic: conscious awareness, the self, subjective feelings. Behavioural/ learning: rewards and punishments, external environment, observable behaviour, social cognitive. Raymond cattell"s sixteen personality factors: found 16 basic behaviour clusters through factor analysis, can be reduced to 5 global factors. Eysenck"s extraversion stability model: intoversion-extraversion, stability-instability (use to be stability-neuroticism)
