PSYC 332 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Extraversion And Introversion, Internalizing Disorder, Personnel Selection

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 332
• Professor: Richard Koestner

Document Summary

There is another way of organizing personality trait description. Researcher argue that there is 2 main way of interacting with world. However, the big 5 is the one that we have to learn and helpful. Who is most extreme on each of the big 5 traits? (big bang theory) Agreeableness incorporates expressive qualities of live and empathy, friendliness, cooperation and care. Indeed, the term agreeable may be a bit too meek for the a domain in traits, a domain that includes such concepts as altruism, affection and many of the most admirably humane aspects of the human personality. These are so broad so that it does not allow you to be precise enough to get the variance in people"s behavior. Imagine you are a counseling or clinical student who just interviewed a new client and you were asked to report on their personality. One might say he is neurotic and not at all extroverted .