PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Walter Mischel, Microsoft Powerpoint, Trait Theory

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Trait approaches to personality: personality trait: a characteristic; a dispositional tendency to act in a certain way over time and across circumstances (powerpoint, slide #7) If you just look at the number of descriptive words we have for describing people: 18,000, large numbers. Factor analysis: creates simplest version of clusters of personality traits. The big five (or five-factor model): openness to experience, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, neuroticism, we tend to focus on the extremes, but each trait exists along a continuum, most people fall somewhere in the middle. Need for cognition: how long people spend thinking about things, positively correlated with ravenclaw (harry potter house, learning and wit. Dark triad traits: narcissism, manipulative behaviour, psychopathy. We are influenced by other people: audience inhibition and the bystander effect, how people react in situations whether other people are present or not, smoke filled room study.

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