BIOC40H3 Lecture Notes - Freudian Slip, Twin, Social Learning Theory
22 Apr 2014
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Dynamic organization integrated and unified whole, we have a sense of having a unified experience. organization occurs within the individual. Personality has causal impact on our behaviour knowing somebody"s personality has an explanatory power to it. 2 world around us: allport (important in personality traits, believed that people react the same in all situations. Cardinal traits rare, but strong unifying influence on person"s behavior. (eg. hitler) Central traits less singular than cardinal (eg. honest, warm) used to distinguish from others. 3: neuroticism, extraversion, openness, agreeableness, conscientiousness, they are measured by the neo-pi-r (neuroticism, extraversion and. Reliability: alphas from . 87 to . 92, n = 1,539. Validity: self-peer r"s from . 36 to . 53, n = 250. Consists of 240 items to describe a person. Mccrae, costa, and busch performed factor analysis on a list of adjectives contained in a test called the california q-set resulting in the same 5 factors.
