PSYC 330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Psychoticism, Trait Theory, Nomothetic
24 Jul 2019
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Chapter 2 - personality traits: a good theory. 17,937: the number of words in the english dictionary that are used to describe human personality. Traits describe typical styles of thinking, feeling, and acting in different situations and at different times. Unlike physical characteristics, cannot be measured directly. Focuses on specific person where person selects which traits are personally important. Explores particular language and identifies synonyms to describe personality. Works to discover important personality aspects and measurement techniques. Eysenck: general and specific traits can be studies within single person. Eysenck"s pen model: factors and narrow traits. Personality pyramid: the hierarchical organization of human personality. Narrow traits: anxious, depressed, low self-esteem, etc. Combine and weigh participant responses in order to develop factors. A small number of factors represent the variation of responses. Each factor explains a certain amount of variance between participants. Factor loadings estimate how strongly each question fits into a given factor.
