PSYB30H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Achievement Orientation, Impression Management, Work Ethic
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Is intelligence a personality trait: generally, cognitive abilities are not considered personality traits. Intelligence has been considered an aspect of openness when referring to a person"s sophistication and interests (not referring to iq of person) Intelligence has been considered an aspect of conscientiousness when describing someone as hardworking, smart or knowledgeable. Designed the spiritual transcendence scale (sts) with three facets: Discovered that scores on the transcendence scales were only slightly related to scores on the five factors and on the neo-pi-r. Factor analysis yielded 6 factors five factors plus transcendence. Findings suggest that spiritual transcendence is a dimension of personality separate from the five factors: to be determined by researchers if spirituality is a dimension of personality. Is sexuality a personality trait: words that describe aspects of sexuality or that are more applicable to one gender than to another, were purposely excluded from early lexical studies, david buss et al.
