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1
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Cattell was attracted to…

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the quantitative side of psychology

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He is remembered for his USE of _______ ______

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factor analysis

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Who created factor analysis?

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Charles Spearman

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Cattell was a well-established researcher of ________

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intelligence

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What two types of intelligence did Cattell believe in?

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Crystallized
Fluid

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What was Cattell’s goal?

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a taxonomy of basic units of personality comparable to the periodic table in chemistry

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Cattell helped to make psychology a…

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science

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What is Cattell’s definition of personality?

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a person’s reaction tendency to a particular set of stimuli or situation

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What is Cattell’s basic unit of personality?

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The trait

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Trait =

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Relatively permanent reaction tendencies

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Define trait subsidation

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traits exist in a hierarchy in his personality theory

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Identify the Trait Hierarchy

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  1. Traits
  2. Second-Order Traits
  3. Source traits, surface traits
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What are Cattell’s trait categories?

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Common Traits
Second-Order Traits
Source Traits; Fundamental Underlying Traits
Surface Traits

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Which trait category is this?

o Intelligence (a very high genetic component)
o Something all humans have to one degree or another (personality traits were believed to be genetic)

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Common Traits

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Which trait category is this?

Anxiety/Exvia vs. Invia/Intelligence/Index of Good

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Second-Order Traits

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Which trait category is this?

o Ability vs. Temperament vs. Dynamic
o Source traits can never disappear from the personality (but surface traits can)

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Source Traits; Fundamental, Underlying Traits

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Which trait category is this?

o Gut-level feelings
o Thoughts
o Actions

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Surface traits

18
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What is Cattell’s approach to research?

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Inductive hypothetical deductive spiral process

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What does the Inductive hypothetical deductive spiral process involve?

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no hypothesis, no opinions, you select a topic, you determine from other authorities what are good ways of measuring this topic which may involve selecting some instruments give to a bunch of people, then you submit the data to factor analysis and see what it yields. Based on THAT dad, you come up with a hypothesis

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