CHAPTER 13 Flashcards
Trait and factor theories of personality are based on what
factor analysis
Characterized by sociability and impulsiveness
Extraverts
Characterized by passivity and thoughtfulness.
Introverts
May indicate anxiety, hysteria,
obsessive-compulsive disorders, or criminality.
High scores on the neuroticism scale.
It tend to predict
emotional stability.
Low scores on the neuroticism scale.
Used to assess personality traits in cultures
throughout the world.
The Five-Factor Theory
Cattell and McCrae and Costa both used an ___________ of gathering data; beginning with no preconceived bias concerning the nuber
or name of traits or types.
Inductive method
Other factor theorists, however, have used the _______; having preconceived hypotheses in mind before they begin to collect data.
Deductive method
Cattell’s three different media of observation.
L Data > a person’s life
record
Q Data > self-reports
T Data > objective tests
Concerned with “how” a person behaves.
Traits of temperament
Deals with “why” one behaves.
Motivation
Refers to “how far” or “how fast” one can perform.
Ability
Cattell divided traits into what
common traits & unique
traits
A matheatical procedure
for expressing the degree of correspondence between two sets of scores.
Correlation coefficient
It accounts for a large nmuber of
variables with a smaller number of more basic dimensions.
Factor Analysis