PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Louise Mckinney, Henrietta Edwards, Big Five Personality Traits

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

Document Summary

The famous five : nellie mcclung, irene parlby, emily murphy, henrietta muir edwards, and louise crummy mckinney. The concept of personality is used to explain (1) the stability in a persons unique constellation of consistent behavioural traits. Personality trait - is a durable disposition to behave in a particular way in a variety of situations (for example, some dispositions that represent personality traits are : honest, dependable, moody, impulsive, suspicious, anxious, excitable, domineering, and friendly). Raymond cattell used statistical procedure of factor analysis to reduce a huge list of personality traits complied by gordon allport to just 16 basic dimensions of personality. Factor analysis -correlations among many variables are analyzed to identify closely related clusters of variables.