Chaoter Four The Tait Perspective Flashcards
Diathesis stress model
A theory holding that a vulnerability plus stress creates problems in behaviour
Behavioural signature
The pattern of situation behaviour links the person has established over experiences in some specific domaine
Extravert
A persons who’s outgoing and prefers social and exciting activities
Factor
A demon soon that underlies a set of interrelated measures such as items on self report inventory
Factor analysis
A statistical procedure used to find basic dimensions underlying a set of measures
Factor loading
A correlation between a single measure and the factor to which it’s being related
Idiographic
Pertaining to an approach that focuses on an individual persons uniqueness
Interaction ism
Idea that situations and personality interact to determine behaviour
Interpersonal circle
Personality patters deriving from varying levels of dominance and love
Introvert
A person who prefers solitary activities
Lexical criterion
An index of the importance of a trait based on the number of words that refer to it
Nomothetic
An approach that focuses on norms and on variations among persons
Second order factor
Factor that emerges from a factor analysis performed on a set if previously found factors
Situationism
The idea that situations are the primary determinants of behaviour
Traits
Continuous dimensions of personality on which people vary
