PSYA02H3 Lecture : Lecture notes with class notes added

• School: UTSC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYA02H3
• Professor: John Bassili

Document Summary

Lecture 17: chapter 14- personality, approaches to personality, trait approach, psychobiological approach, social learning approach, psychodynamic approach, humanistic approach, trait, the trait approach makes 2 important assumptions: personality consists of traits that are unique to each individual. traits- a lot to pick from: if a person is outgoing- they will still be outgoing next week, the big 5, the english vocab contains 20000 trait terms. But there is a lot of redundancy among them (sociable outgoing: factor analysis- thick questionnaires. give the factors what groups together to see relationships: decades of research on similarities b/w traits have yielded 5 clusters: neuroticism: moody, tense, worries, excess of negative emotion, dark side of things, nervous, unstable, irritable. conscientiousness: hard working, wants to do things right, these tendencies mix in diff proportions to create diff personalities, factor analysis.