PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12.1: Big Five Personality Traits, Theodor W. Adorno, Gordon Allport
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Personality: a characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and behaving that is unique to each individual and remains relatively consistent over time and situation. Idiographic: creating detailed description of a specific person"s unique personality characteristics. E. g. when you"re trying to think why he is so weird. Can be applied to full range of human experience. Maslow"s analysis of biographies of famous people. Nomothetic: examine personality in large groups of people, with the aim of making generalizations about personality structure. E. g. examine personality predictors of alcohol, drug use etc. A personality trait describe a person"s habitual patterns of thinking, feeling and. Summarize a great deal of information about the person and predict. The first systematic attempt to identify all possible traits was made in the 1930s by how the person will behave. The barnum effect: there"s a sucker born every minute . It is easy for people to be convinced that a personality profile describe them well even if they are wrong.
