PSYB30H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Longitudinal Study, Personnel Selection, Psychoticism
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Some critics claimed that the five factors are complete and can account for even the unusual traits. Cognitive ability is not generally considered a personality trait. Raymond cattel identified ability traits: memory, mathematical ability, intelligence. Some think that intelligence fall under the conscientiousness category of the big five. Words related to intelligence: hardworking, smart, knowledgeable, ^conscientiousness factor and are not used to measure intelligence. There is evidence that there are individual differences in how people perceive and process information about the social world (called emotional intelligence by some psychologists) The idea of intelligence as an ability in the form of iq is controversial and is quite a different concept than traits. Religion and religious adjectives have not been looked at much by psychology. Spirituality is a core part of a who a person is to many people. Some psychologist look at religiosity as a secondary trait of the big five.
