PSYC 1000 Chapter Notes -Isabel Briggs Myers, Frontal Lobe, Gordon Allport
11 Dec 2013
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In psychology, trait researchers attempt to define personality as stable and enduring behaviour patterns. Personality can be described in traits: a characteristic pattern of behaviour or a disposition to feel and act, as assessed by self-report inventories and peer reports. Gordon allport came to define personality in terms of identifiable behaviour patterns. He was concerned less with explaining individual traits than describing them. Isabel briggs myers and her mother katharine briggs wanted to describe important personality differences. They attempted to sort out carl jung"s personality types. The myers-briggs type indicator (mbti) has been taken by more than 2 million a year mostly for career counselling, leadership training, and work team development. Classifying people as one or another distinct personality type fails to capture their full individuality. We are each a unique complex of multiple traits. Factor analysis is a statistical procedure used to identify clusters of test items that tap basic components of a trait.
