PSY 120 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: 16Pf Questionnaire, Carl Jung, Psychodynamics
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Psychology 121: chapter 15: personality and individual differences. Introduction to personality: personality: the style in which a person interacts with the world, particularly with other people, we tend to focus on differences rather than similarities between ourselves and others. 5 sources of data: self-report data, observer-report data, specific behavioural data, life-events data, physiological data. Personality traits: trait: a person"s relatively stable disposition to behave in a certain way, state: a person"s transient disposition to behave in a certain way, a trait can determine the likelihood of someone entering into a state. Trait theories: trait theory: a set of meaningful and distinct personality dimensions can be used to describe how people differ from one another. Cattell"s 16 personality factors: cattell used factor analysis, factor analysis: a statistical technique that is used to identify patterns of correlations in responses to questionnaires. Eysenck and gray"s two central dimensions: emotional stability vs. instability. 5 dimensions: extraversion/introversion, agreeableness/antagonism, conscientiousness/undirectedness, emotional stability/instability, openness to experience/non-openness.
