PS101 Lecture Notes - Big Five Personality Traits, Trait Theory, Personal Unconscious
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Psychology study notes: chapter 12: personality: theory, research and assessment. Defining personality: consistency and distinctiveness: the concept of personality is used to explain: The stability in a person"s behavior over time and across situations (consistency) The behavioural differences among people reacting to the same situation (distinctiveness: personality refers to an individual"s unique constellation of consistent behavioural traits. If the measurements of a number of variables (ie personality traits) correlate highly with one another, the assumption is that a single factor is influencing all of them. In factor analyses of personality traits, these hidden factors are viewed as very basic, higher-order traits that determine less basic, more specific traits. Cattell concluded that an individual"s personality can be described. The five-factor model of personality traits: completely by measuring just 16 traits: mccrae and costa have used factor analysis to arrive at a five-factor model.
