PSYC 2600 Lecture Notes - Job Performance, Likert Scale, Agreeableness
14 Oct 2012
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Disposition domain-1st of 6 major domains in personality research. Focuses on how many traits are there" how are they organized". Desires, wants, needs (ambitious-need for achievement wants status; rebellious-needs autonomy, wants to express themselves. Does a trait only describe? (ambitious, set high goals, excited over achievement; rebellious-disobeyed the law, dressed in unconventional way. Categorical vs distribution: shy vs outgoing, very separate therefore no inbetween, cut off scores. Also many possible levels of scores, normal distribution. We reference politics, literature, movies and games a lot, they set out most popular traits. Interest in others (friendly vs conformity); ability to function (psychosis, neurosis, intelligence) Lexical approach- all important differences are encoded within natural language (new words get invented to explain differences). The important of a trait is determined by: how often used, synonym frequency, if they are across many sutures. Good for identifying traits, poor for understanding hierarchy of traits, only exact words, not phrases.
