PSYC 1200 Lecture 13: Psych 1200 – Lecture 13
8 Mar 2017
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Module 12. 1 - contemporary approaches to personality: personality - a characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and behaving that is unique to each individual, and remains consistent over time and situations. Idiographic approach - creating detailed descriptions of a specific persons unique personality characteristics: nomothetic approach - examine personality in large groups of people, with the aim of making generalizations about personality structure. Factor analysis - used to group items that people respond to similarly for traits: cattell. Five factor model - a trait based theory of personality based on the finding that personality can be described using five major dimensions: from mccrae and costa, openness, high openness - dreamers, creators, open minded. Love openness - avoid the unknown, like to be straightforward, resistant to change: conscientiousness, high cs - organizers, planners, best students/workers, live longer. Low cs - easy going, chill, bad group partners, disorganized: extraversion, extraverts - socializers and sensation seekers, outgoing.
