PSY230H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Personality Psychology, Factor Analysis, Conscientiousness
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Which discipline in psychology is most similar to personality psychology in that it studies naturally occurring differences between individuals: cognitive psychology, social psychology, developmental psychology, abnormal psychology, neuropsychology. Caring, talkative, punctual, creative, fearless, careless, impulsive, religious, artistic, sensual, strict, curious, humorous, messy, modest, aggressive, daring, grumpy, thoughtful, determined, helpful, passive, seductive, traditional, honest . Each assessor has his own pet units and uses a pet battery of diagnostic devices (allport, 1958) Taxonomy: a systematic framework for distinguishing, ordering, and naming individual differences in people"s behavior and experience. Allport and odbert (1936: extraction of all personality-relevant terms from the. [english] dictionary (18,000): they distinguished 4 major categories of words, personality traits (e. g. , sociable, aggressive) 2: highly evaluative judgments (e. g. , excellent, physical characteristics (e. g. , tall) temporary states (e. g. , afraid, elated) Some researchers have used people"s perceptions of relatedness to create taxonomies of personality traits. More often researchers have used correlation coefficients as a measure of relatedness.
