PSYC 2130 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Gordon Allport, Continuity Equation, Psychopathology
21 Nov 2016
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Traits exist and can be examined by psychologists as well as by everybody else in daily life. What is the point of measuring traits: to predict behaviour, to understand behaviour. Research that seeks to connect traits with behaviour use 4 methods. Doubt whether it is valid to compare people with each other. Hope researchers can find groups of people who resemble each other they belong to the same (cid:498)type(cid:499) Self monitoring addresses issues concerning the relationship between ones private inner. Narcissism describes a basic trait of people who may be charming, attractive and. Sometimes they go beyond these casual observations by administering integrity tests . Personality testing can help alleviate the effects of bias in testing do not show racial and (cid:498)motivation(cid:499) variable that separates the good from the bad perhaps it has been found predicting employee theft. Integrity tests are better for measuring broad personality traits rather than narrow tests of honesty.
