PSYB30H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Beck Depression Inventory, C. Robert Cloninger, Extraversion And Introversion
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Bfi (john, donahue, & kentle, 1991: copyrighted instument, developed to supplant the neo in instances where you could not afford to pay for it, assess the big five under 10 minutes. Ipip-neo (goldberg, johnson, eber, hogan, ashton, cloninger, & gough, 2006: developed an item pool in a public domain, developed a clone of the neo. Traits are continuous: where do you fall on this continuous dimension of traits, can be used to describe every person to some degree. Traits are comparative: scores obtained on a test have no intrinsic value, compared to others, an anchor at each end of the dimension, a pole at either end of the. Traits are bipolar continuum, labeled to the other. We will likely need a scale that reaches from one pole all the way. We tend to call a trait by one name even though they exist on a continuum.
