PSYB30H3 Chapter 1: Chapter 1
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Personality psychologists often study individual differences in people from birth to death (with emphasis on the adult years) most common method for quantifying individual differences in dispositional traits is self-report tests. hans eysenck & raymond b. cattell (influential personality psychologists) Big five: dispositional trait categories (o): openness to experience (c): conscientiousness (e): extraversion (a): agreeableness (n): neuroticism: characteristic adaptations: aspects of personality that are contextualized in time, observe the area of interest over a long period of time. one must be a creative observer who preserves order and patterns where it has not been perceived before. Context of discovery: the scientist operates seeks to discover new ways of seeing reality. piaget & freud- both used subjective observations (eg. their children) resulted in theories individual. Both used case studies: an in-depth investigation of a single. Induction: as they more from the particular events they are discened to the more abstract representations of.
