APSY2240 Study Guide - 16Pf Questionnaire, Conscientiousness, Psychoticism

• School: Boston College
• Department: Counseling, Developmental, and Educational Psychology
• Course: APSY2240
• Professor: All

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The use of statistics: r. b cattell factors listed by allport were further grouped, rated and factor analyzed like allport, he assumed that language has evolved to capture the important aspects of personality started with a list, derived from allport"s that seemed to contain all the nonsynonymous adjectives that refer to personality people then rated on these characteristics and combined for factor analysis(cid:224) 16 personality factors cattell repeated these basic processes in many ways and on various data sets through the years, each person had own scientific entitiy. Personal dispositions nuclear quality: allport"s term for describing personal dispositions in term"s of a person"s unique goals, motives or styles personal disposition: used by allport to describe a trait that is peculiar to an individual cardinal dispositions: used by alport to describe personal despositions that exert an overwhelming influence on behavior central dispositions: term used by allport to describe the several personal dispositions around which personality is organized.