PSY 309 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9-12: Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Narcissism, Lexical Hypothesis
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Main question: what do people with this trait do? (ex. It"s (cid:374)ot (cid:374)e(cid:272)essaril(cid:455) (cid:271)etter to (cid:271)e high or lo(cid:449: high vs. low self-monitors differ in their behaviors such as social interactions, expressive gestures, number of friends, experiences of emotions, etc. Word use: people differ in the way they use words. The big five: factor analytic approaches to reducing the many to a few. If something is important, then people will have invented a word for it = lexical hypothesis: extraversion, being outgoing, talkative, sociable, and enjoying social situations, advantages: higher status, rated as more popular and physically. Integrity tests (used to select employees: predict job performance and absenteeism, predi(cid:272)t jo(cid:271) perfor(cid:373)a(cid:374)(cid:272)e for o(cid:374)e"s spouse, openness to experience. Implications of the big 5: traits are orthogonal, or unrelated, can bring order to many research findings, more complex than they seem at first, high-order factors: stability and plasticity, low-order factors or facets, labels are oversimplified.
