PSYC 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, Jerome Kagan, Albert Bandura

• School: Binghamton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 111
• Professor: Lanora Duell

Document Summary

Extraverts seeking stimulation because their normal brain arousal level is relatively low. Benefits of introversion: as supervisors, introverts show greater receptiveness when their employees voice their ideas, challenge existing norms, and take charge assessing trait theories: personality inventories. People respond to items designed to measure a wide range of feelings and behaviors. Big five validity scales researchers have isolated five distinct personality dimensions, dubbed the big five: conscientiousness agreeableness. Extraversion these traits appear to be stable in adulthood, about 50% are heritable, descriptive of others around the world, and predictive of other personal attributes. Myers-briggs type indicator the myers-briggs type indicator (mbti) is an introspective self-report questionnaire designed to indicate physiological preferences in how people perceive the world and make decisions: 16 personality types. Perceiving vs judging intuitive vs sensing thinking vs feeling social-cognitive theories the social-cognitive perspective. Exploring the self the self is one of western psychology"s more vigorously researched topics.