PSYC 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12 : Hexaco Model Of Personality Structure, Machiavellianism, Unconscious Mind

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Benjamin Giguere

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Personality: characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling and behaving that is unique to each individual, and remains relatively consistent over time and situations. Idiographic approach: c(cid:396)eati(cid:374)g detailed des(cid:272)(cid:396)iptio(cid:374)s of spe(cid:272)ifi(cid:272) pe(cid:396)so(cid:374)"s u(cid:374)i(cid:395)ue pe(cid:396)so(cid:374)alit(cid:455) characteristics. Helpful not only for understanding yourself and your social world, but also can be applied to the full range of human experience. Nomothetic approach: examine personality in large groups of people, with the aim of making generalizations about personality structure. Rather than trying to understand a specific person, psychologists taking a nomothetic approach may want to under that factors that predict certain behaviours across people in general. Personality trait: a person"s habitual patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving. Ho(cid:449) a pe(cid:396)so(cid:374) a(cid:272)ts (cid:862)(cid:373)ost of the ti(cid:373)e(cid:863) Factor analysis: used to group items that people respond to similarly. Example: warm, friendly, kind have similar meanings and therefore are grouped in clusters referred to as a factor.