PSYC 2530 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Trait Theory, Factor Analysis

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2530
• Professor: Jocelyn B.Proulx

Document Summary

Striving for objecivity and minimizing bias experiencing sampling method, compleing surveys either randomly throughout the day, only during paricular events or on a schedule nomotheic approach. What do we know about personality from the idiographic approach? the goal is to ind universal concepts that can be applied to and describe everyone: studying individual personaliies: the idiographic approach allport ideniied 3 kinds of traits. Cardinal traits: a person that can be described with one and only one trait, the idiographic approach applied: the case of jenny read this in textbook. What so we know about personality from the nomotheic approach: finding universals: the nomotheic approach. There are 3 diferent ways to idenify meaningful and applicable words to describe personality. Theoreical approach: using a theory to idenify the most important traits for understanding personality. Lexical approach: using synonyms within languages to idenify the most important traits for understanding personality, explores a paricular language and ideniies the number of synonyms that describe personality.