PSYC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Factor Analysis, Job Performance, Extraversion And Introversion
24 Dec 2015
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A person"s relatively stable disposition to behave in a particular and consistent way; often seen as a pre-existing disposition that causes the behavior (personality inventories); researchers have described and measured hundreds of traits. Self-presentation- (you may want to present yourself better than you really are), so lie scales: we know what most people answer if you deviate from this too much you"re either too honest, or a darn liar. Two ways of constructing traits: see-what-sticks approach (make them answer random questions and see how that correlates in a big group); factor- analysis approach (sort trait items into small dimensions) As typology, the briggs meyer sucks, but at the continuous level it is better. Ocean (big five): started from adjectives to describe people, and accounts (the underlying numbers) for variability without overlap. Agreeableness scores are skewed, everything else is in a bell curve distribution; myers briggs misses neuroticism, isn"t very good at measuring conscientiousness and agreeableness.
