PSYC 2330 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Lexical Hypothesis, Polskie Radio Program I, Factor Analysis
14 Apr 2013
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Traits are internal in the sense that individuals carry their desires, needs, and wants from one situation to the next. These desires and needs are presumed to be causal in the sense that they explain the behaviour of the individuals who possess them. These traits may lie dormant, meaning a person will not display this trait in every setting of their life: descriptive summaries. Define traits simply as descriptive summaries of attributes of persons; they make no assumptions about internality or causality. Begins with the notion that traits are categories of acts. i. e. the category dominance might include specific acts such as: he issued orders that got the group organized. He assigned roles and got the game going. Helps study the meaning of hard to study traits. All traits listed and defined in the dictionary form the basis of the natural way. Thus the logical starting point for the lexical strategy is the natural language.
