PSYC35H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Hexaco Model Of Personality Structure, Trait Theory, Meta-Analysis
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Have tried to answer the big question of the # of traits that describe the person as a whole: refleted in popular models: big five, hexaco model, & the big eight. Big five : strength: clear structure & organization, weakness: does not explain personality function only describes these individual differences; based on factory analysis (data driven) When comparing traits and goals, they conceptually appear to be somewhat: trait: describe how people are acting, thinking, and feeling distinct from each other. You either have the trait or you don"t attained. Goals: goals: refer to specific cognitions of end-states that have yet to be undesired end-state. Traits: descriptive of how people are acting, thinking, and feeing in the present, may not have a direction of movement, no comparative component. Goals: unrealized end-points in the future, direct a person in a trajectory to reach the desired end-point, involve comparing the present to the desired endpoint wit the intent to reduce any discrepancies.
