PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Mother Teresa, Sweat Gland, Fluid And Crystallized Intelligence
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Lecture #2 wk2 jan 16th, 2013. Trait: a consistent pattern of behaviour, emotion, and thought. Each trait is a way of defining your environment: stability over time and situations, distinctness btwn ppl. S that must be explained by other theories. Framework within which any and all persons can be described. Taxonomy (classification scheme) of traits: big 5 , a list, raymond cattell. Approaches to discovering traits approach -> takes words that desc. Lexical (going through dictionary, removing synonyms to get a list) Theoretical theorised from someone else (empirical approach -> work from data collected on ppl approach -> building from a theory, sometimes already: introvert vs. extrovert (carl jung) Common traits shared by all: to a greater or lesser degree, not just b/c of human. Behaviours can be represented on trait continuum-each person can be placed somewhere on continuum. Scores assumed to be normal distributed (fewer ppl scare in the extreme on any trait)
