PSYC 3325 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Orthogonality, Ibm System P, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
8 Feb 2019
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Includes all of the major traits of personality. Traits as purely descriptive summaries: describe enduring aspects of a person"s behavior, make no assumptions about internality or causality, summarizes expressed behavior, but makes no assumptions about what causes the behavior, behavior may be due to social situations. The act frequency formulation of traits an illustration of the. Descriptive summary formulation: traits are categories of acts, a dominant person is someone who performs a large number of dominant acts relative to others, a trait is a descriptive summary of the general trend in a person"s behavior. Identify which acts belong in which trait categories. Identify which acts are more central to, or prototypical of, each trait category. Recording act performance: secure information on the actual performance of individuals in their daily lives, self-reports, reports from close friends or spouses, traditional trait measures do a moderately good job of predicting manifest behavior in everyday life.
