PSY100Y5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Paul Hewitt, Carl Jung, Binge Eating Disorder

• School: UTM
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100Y5
• Professor: Dax Urbszat

Document Summary

The nature of perso(cid:374)ality, psychody(cid:374)a(cid:373)ic perspectives, behavioural perspectives, Hu(cid:373)a(cid:374)istic perspectives, biological perspectives, e(cid:373)pirical approaches to perso(cid:374)ality. An individual"s unique collection of consistent behavioural traits: consistency: stability in behaviour across situation lies at the core of personality, distinctiveness: behavioural differences among people reacting to the same situation are core to personality. A durable disposition to behave a certain way in a variety of situations. Most approaches to personality assume there are basic traits, where a small number of fundamental traits determine other superficial ones. For example, being impulsive & irritable may come from being excitable. Psychologists have tried to identify the basic traits. Raymond cattell used factor analysis to reduce a huge list of personality traits compiled by gordon allport to 16 basic dimensions of personality. Robert mccrae & paul costa used factor analysis to get a simpler 5-factor model of personality.