PSYA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Reticular Formation, Authoritarian Personality, Albert Bandura
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Personality state vs trait: personality trait: a person"s habitual patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving. Traits can be measured by asking others to rate a person and asking the person to fill out a questionnaire. A trait is a consistent, long-lasting tendency in behaviour (e. g. , sociability, shyness, assertiveness) The barnum effect: the tendency to accept certain vague or worthless information as true, such as character assessments, horoscopes, psychic predictions, and/or exaggerated claims. Factor analysis: a statistical technique used to group items that people respond to similarly. Evaluation of personality trait theories: contributions: Theories assume individual differences in traits: limitations: Trait theory is associated with the sophistication level of the subjects that are used in the study. Statistical analyses used in trait studies may govern the outcomes. Do not explain how and why traits emerge. Five factor model: a trait-based theory of personality based on the finding that personality can be described using five major dimensions openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism.
