PS101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Genital Stage, Sigmund Freud, Raymond Cattell
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Personality- refers to an individual"s unique constellation of consistent behavioural traits consistent tendencies across situations core distinctiveness explains why not everyone acts the same way in similar situations: our own distinctive set of personality traits. Personality trait- a durable disposition to behave in a particular way in a variety of situations. Factor analysis- correlations among many variables are analyzed to identify closely related clusters of variables used to identify hidden factors behind numerous personality traits very basic, high order traits that determine less basic, more specific traits. Raymond cattell (1937) concluded that an individual"s personality can be describes completely by measuring just 16 traits. Include all the diverse theories descended from the work of sigmund freud, which focus on unconscious mental forces. Sigmund freud devoted himself to the treatment of mental disorders using innovative procedure he had developed, called psychoanalysis.
