PSYC 2740 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Lexical Hypothesis, Impulsivity, Big Five Personality Traits
16 Nov 2017
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Recall that a trait is : a characteristic describing how people differ (or are similar, refers to an average tendency, relatively enduring. Desires/needs carry across settings & are presumed to be causal. Helps to rule out other causes for behaviour but traits may lie dormant: causal help to influence and explain why people do the things they do. Trying to find different categories of behaviour that acquaint to different traits: traits = categories of acts, act nomination, prototypically judgement, recording of act performance. Act frequency: a critique: pros, helps study the meaning of hard to study traits (i. e. , creativity, identify. Identifies acts relating to most traits (can account for lots of different traits) How do we identify traits: 3 main approaches: (not mutually exclusive, lexical, statistical, theoretical. Statistical approach: factor analysis: used when we want to narrow down a list of potential traits into a smaller number of meaningful traits.
