PSYB30H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Trait Theory, Libido, Psychoanalysis

Summarize the psychosexual stages of personality
development (focus on personality traits in adulthood).

2.Factor analysis is useful to a psychologist pursing a trait approach to personality because it allows him or her to

46. You are at your first class in Psychology 020 and before the professor arrives the person sitting beside you says "Professor Smith is a very cold individual". You note, however, the Professor Smith smiles a lot when he teaches. When your roommate asks you about Professor Smith, you say he is an "icy" personality. This is an example of A) a cognitive dissonance effect B) reaction formation C) a primacy effect D) a recency effect E) social facilitation