PSYC 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Terror Management Theory, Stereotype Threat, Julian Rotter

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Caroline F Pukall

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[personality: measuring personality: distinguish between personality types and traits. Personality: consistent pattern of thoughts, feelings, and behaviours that characterize each person as a unique individual (describing stable differences among individuals) The trait approach classifies and describes psychological characteristics by which people differ consistently between situations and over time: explain research to identify personality traits by allport, cattell, and the five-factor model. Gordon allport identified 18,000 english adjectives that could describe an individual"s personality. Raymond cattel narrowed allport"s list to 1 core personality traits through the use of factor analysis. Factor analysis: technique used to reveal the factors (a general type or category that contributes to an outcome) or basic dimensions that underlie a questionnaire data set. The statistical factor analysis finds clusters or groups of related answers to simple questions about the self, and this indicates a common underlying factor or trait.