PSY 340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Consistency, Lexical Hypothesis, Trait Theory
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Personality assessment: personality: characteristic patterns of bx, though, or emotional experience that exhibit relative consistency across time and situations, traits predict bx, traits can be used to understand bx, history, four humors typographical approach, phrenology. Personality assessment: potential problems: test are unfair mechanisms for controlling people, traits do not matter until and unless they are tested and are social constructions, being described as a set of scores is undignified and humiliating. Personality assessment: responses to potential problems: criticisms are overstated, traits are not invented or constructed. It is na ve to view personality testing for hiring purposes as undignified or unethical: used by psychologist, corporations and the military. Essential- trait approach: big five and beyond: discovery of the big five, lexical hypothesis, looks. Typographical approach to personality: based on doubt about whether it is valid to compare people quantitatively on the same trait dimensions.
