PSYC 2130 Lecture Notes - Lexical Analysis, Trait Theory, Reductionism
25 Nov 2013
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If the person is low in masculinity and high in femininity feminine. If the person is high in masculinity and low in femininity masculine. If the person in low in both un-differential. If the person is high in both androgynous: historical overview. It have been around the time since the ancient greek: early typologies. Kretschmer"s somatotype theory: trait approaches whatever the based assumption about trait approach is that it is temporal stability. Another assumption is that traits are situational stability. Trait vary according to the number of traits considered to be basic, where those traits come from, and the type of data they generate don"t share a common methodology. Type approach was shift to the trait approach. It"s easy to be seduced into thinking that traits are measurable. The most conservative way to think of traits is that they are still theoretical concepts that describe a basic dimension of personality.
