PSYC 2130 Lecture Notes - Substance Abuse, Personality Development, Conventionalism
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Psyc 2130 chapter 7: using personality traits to understand behaviour. Researchers attack the behaviour of interest with long lists of traits intended to cover a wide range of personality. Tries to narrow the list to the traits that really matter. The big five list includes traits of extraversion, neuroticism, conscientiousness, agreeableness and openness: the typological approach: stems from a doubt and a hope. The doubt is whether it is really valid to compare people with each other quantitatively on the same trait dimensions. The hope is that researchers can identify groups of people who resemble each other enough, and are different enough from everybody else, that it makes sense to conclude they belong to the same type. Instead of focusing on traits directly, this approach focuses on the patterns of traits that characterize whole persons, and tries to sort these patterns into types.
