PSYA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Oedipus Complex, Rorschach Test, Latency Stage
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Characteristics are present from early in life to later in life. There is evidence that the personality that is seen in a baby may continue into different stages of life. Ideographic nature: focus of the uniqueness or individual bits. Nomothetic idea: attempt to measure a lot of people and generalize what you find out about their personalities look at thinks objectively. This is usually based off of numeric data. Extrovert vs. introverted introvert is stereotypically is a home body. Extrovert is someone that is a social butterfly, wants to leave the house, and make friends. There is a spectrum and individuals may either fall in the extremes or somewhere on the spectrum. Personality traits: these characteristics still with you throughout time. How many traits are required to describe an individual. Factor analysis: look at all the traits and see which overlap which ones describe a similar thing. Concept of factoring out come from his work.
