PSYC 332 Lecture Notes - Unrequited Love, Neuroticism, Agreeableness
8 Oct 2011
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How do we know another person: the personality framework of dan mcadams. Already formed some impressions of jim and pam, and ryan if though you only saw. 10 seconds (at the end: gentle, outgoing, likeable, spontaneous, thoughtful, conscientious, shy, energetic, quarrelsome, neurotic, disorganized, open-minded. Even after a brief presentation you can generate some descriptions. 18, 000 - diff terms to describe personality, more are state like descriptions (today we want to talk about general patterns of behaviour consistent across situations and over time. 4, 000 only this amount that refer to stable characteristics (some sound similar, synonyms) 170 grouping things that are synonyms or reverse antonyms (still way to many to be useful to you in organizing your info about other people) 5 factor analysis allows you identify clusters of traits that seem to go together but they cohere. *other trait dimensions that wouldn"t appear in jim and pam.
