PSYC 2740 Chapter 3: PSYCH 2740 - CHAPTER 3 NOTES
4 Feb 2016
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Three fundamental questions guide those who study personality traits: Goal: formulate a comprehensive taxonomy of all important traits. Starts with the notion that traits are categories of acts. Saturday, january 10, 2015: recording: consists of securing information on the actual performance of individuals in their daily lives. Behavioural acts constitute of the building blocks of interpersonal perception and the basis for inferences about personality traits. Hence, it can be used to predict important outcomes in everyday life as well as. Cross-cultural universality: the more important is an individual difference in human transactions, the more languages will have a term for it. Factory analysis: identi es groups of items that covary together but not with other groups of items. It helps identify how these clusters have some common property and reducing a set into more underlying factors. Factor loadings: indicate the degree of which the item correlates with the underlying factor.
