PSYC 2130 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Factor Analysis, Trait Theory, Heritability
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Eysenck"s criteria for identifying personality factors: psychometric evidence, heritability, theoretical soundness, social relevance. Eysenck said that to put psychology on the map we need to bring together two approaches: identify major dimensions of personality (major traits of personality) Eysenck provided a modern scientific study of personality. Stable and enduring organization of a person"s character, temperament, intellect and physique: character: system of intentional behaviour, temperament: affect or emotion, intellect: cognitive abilities, physique: genetic predispositions to genetic makeup. According to eysenck: in order to talk about personality trait you have to demonstrate it empirically or statistically. If a personality trait truly exists, you must be able to replicate your findings across many samples. The difficulty in deciding what is socially relevant, because it is difficult to gain consensus on all socially related phenomenon. Eysneck revised his model and the model he gave us gave us three personality traits: most useful to us in describing personality function: neuroticism, sociability: introversion-extraversion, psychoticism.
