PSYB30H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Wicket-Keeper, Walter Mischel, Lexical Hypothesis
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Part 1: lexican hypothesis, factor analysis and paradigm crisis. Personality is unified phenomena, the experience, you feel like the same person across time. Personality has an integrative quality. Whatever personality is, it causes our behavior. The function of personality is adaptational, it assists us to adjusting to environments we experience. We not only adjust to our environment we reflect on it, strive to master it and sometime succeed. Behavior and though make for survival and growth. Traits- common(factors) vs. individual (trait possessed by a single person) We have between 5 and 10 central traits), secondary (traits that categorize specific areas of an individuals functioning. All of us have lots of these) Develop word or phrase to speak to that difference. Variable: any quality that can assume two or more values. Correlation: a standardized index of the extent to which two variables are co- related. Reduced allport and odberts lists of 4,500 personality traits terms to 171 clusters.
