PSY230H5 Study Guide - Final Guide: Genital Stage, Raymond Cattell, Phallic Stage
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Personality: refers to an individual"s unique constellation on consistent behavioural traits. Consistency: the stability in a person"s behaviour over time and across situations. Distinctiveness: the behavioural differences among people reacting to the same situation. Personality trait: durable disposition to behave in a particular war in a variety of situations. (adjectives such as honest, dependable, moody, impulsive, anxious describe dispositions that represent personality traits. Most approaches to personality assume some traits are more basic than others, a small number of traits might determine others. Example, restlessness, impulsiveness, impatient, are derived from a basic tendency such as excitable. Raymond cattell used statistical procedure of factor analysis reduced a large list of personality traits to 16 basic personality traits. In recent years robert mccrae and paul costa used factor analysis to arrive at a 5-factor model of personality. Agreeableness: these people tend to be sympathetic, trusting, cooperative, modest and straight forward.
