PSY100Y5 Study Guide - Vienna Psychoanalytic Society, Sexual Repression, Psychosexual Development
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Emphasis on freud, skinner, and rogers" theory. Personality: individual"s unique and consistent behavioural traits: no one is consistent in behaviour, but the consistency across situations defines the concept of personality, each have distinctive set of personality traits that react differently to the same situation. Personality trait: durable nature to behave in a particular way in a variety of situations. There are 16 basic dimensions of personality. Factor analysis: correlations among many variables are analyzed to identify closely related clusters of variables. When the measurements of a number of variables correlate highly with one another, the assumption is that a single factor is influencing all of them. Hidden factors are identifies and it considered the very basic and high-ordered traits that determine less basic and more specific traits. Using factor analysis, cattell said an individual"s personality can be described completely by measuring just 16 basic traits. High-order traits known as the big five : Extraversion, neuroticism, openness to experience, agreeableness, conscientiousness.
