PSYC 102 Chapter Notes -Agreeableness, Otto F. Kernberg, Psychosexual Development
10 Dec 2012
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Why pid: personality was hard to measure, always being inferred, so we call it individual differences . Consistency and individuality, customary ways of responding to their world. Behaviour is seen as part of an organized and structured whole (not one day nice one day nasty) State versus trait some behaviours are more indicative of personality (trait: expect to be consistent. Goal of trait theorists are to describe basic classes of behavior that define personality, measuring individual differences, and understand and predict behavior. Wanted to identify behavior that define a particular trait, allport found 18,000 words, and tried to condense into small number. Using factor analysis (identify clusters of specific behaviors that correlate with one another so highly that they can be viewed as reflecting a same basic trait) Introversion-extraversion: behavioral patterns of the socially reserved and socially active on each end of dimension. Identified 16 basic behavior clusters with factor analysis, could also give personality profiles to groups of people.
