PSYC2242 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Confirmatory Factor Analysis, Big Five Personality Traits, Correlation And Dependence
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Mini quiz: what are eysenck"s 3 supertraits, extraversion, neuroticism, psychoticism, how does eysenck define melancholic in terms of his supertraits, as the combination of introversion and neuroticism. Start going over your notes in between classes! It is better than cramming at the end! Example: empathic tendency: develop theory, define concepts, state propositions, develop measures for the trait, test the propositions, modify theory as needed, answer the 4 questions personality theory answers. The trouble with measuring traits is that there are too many of them. Factor analysis: statistical method to create structure. Idea here is to develop the structure of traits. He decided that there is a structure of the 40 traits, and that they can be represented within a 16 dimensional space . 16 source traits (the underlying 16 sources for the surface traits) Developed questionnaire measures for the 16 traits. 16 pf = assessment device widely used. Allport (another person): cardinal, central, secondary, personal traits.
