PSYB30H3 Chapter Notes -Hans Eysenck, Gordon Allport, Factor Analysis
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Gosling, ko, mannarelli, and morris reasoned that when ppl live in an environment they leave behavioural residue behind. Traits describe a person"s typical style of thinking, feeling, and acting in different kinds of situations and at different times. Temporary states (ie emotions), attitudes (liberal, conservative) and physicaly attributes (short) are not considered personality traits. Traits are thought of as hypothetical concepts psychologists assume traits exist even tho we cant see them. Two approaches to the study of personality traits. In the idiographic approach, the goal is to understand the personality of a single individual w/ all of his or her idiosyncrasies and characteristics that make them unique. In the nomothetic approach, the goal is to discover universals concepts that can apply to everyone by identifying traits that can describe all ppl or that can be applied to any person. >both approaches overlap and both contribute to a complete understanding of human personality.
