PS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Theophrastus, Personality Test, Behaviorism
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We are different: throughout time people have been intuitively aware of individual differences, we like some people and some we don"t like. Historical knowledge of individual differences: theophrastus wrote about different characters to try and describe individual differences, attempting to characterize people - their personalities. They are emotions that are always there and apart of a person"s personality, to show how a person is feeling emotionally. Answers by trait theorists: number of traits measured varies by test, are they stable - somewhat, sometimes, some genetic component, some environmental, differences across people come from within the person. Trait theories: cattell was first-16 traits with opposing labels, happy-go-lucky vs somber , cattell gave way to more modern tests which have fewer traits. Trait-based personality assessment: modern tests, neo-pi-r (costa & mccrae, big 5 personality traits or the five-factor model (extraversion, neuroticism, openness to experience, agreeableness, conscientious, meyers-briggs personality test. The big modern personality assessment: empirical devised tests, hierarchically arranged.
