PSY 370 Lecture 2: Week 2 Notes (WED)
10 Feb 2019
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Trait theory: hierarchy of behavior organization, specific acts or cognitions: specific to a situation, may not be indicative of normal characteristic behaviors i. Sometimes may be outlier: habitual acts or cognitions: recurring acts under similar conditions, traits: semi-permanent dispositions, types or superfactors: interrelated traits. People can be interrelated traits i: how many traits are there? a. Galton explored roget"s thesaurus and found over a thousand core words expressive of character. : allport counted 18,000, two conceptualizations of traits a. Internal mechanisms: the outward expression of a person"s needs the trait follows from situation to situation, the cause follows. I. e. , the person has a need to control in every situation: purely descriptive - no causation. Eysenck: three factors i. ii: mccrae and costa: five factors iv. Jung-myers briggs type indicator: cattell"s trait theory, method i. ii. Divided traits into common and unique traits factor analysis: associated and correlated descriptors that belonged together into one trait iii.
