PSYC 2120 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Neuroticism, Surgency, Complement Factor B
4 Feb 2015
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Allport"s trait approach founder of modern dispositional strategy: traits have more than normal existence (not labels, but are part of the person) heuristic realism, traits are more generalized than habits, traits are dynamic and determine behaviour, traits are established empirically, traits are only relatively independent of other traits, traits are not synonymous with moral or social judgments, traits may be viewed either in light of the personality that contains them (idiographically) or in the light of their distribution in the population (nomothetically, acts/habits that are inconsistent with a trait are not proof of the nonexistence of the trait. Analysis of vast #"s of correlation coefficients in search of common elements small group is summary of the entire array of inter correlations: collecting data, producing correlation matrix (table showing exact relationship between each measure, extracting factors, determining factor loads (correlation of a measure with particular factor, naming factors.
