Chapter 13 FIB Flashcards
Social psychologists explain behavior by the situation, whereas: personality psychologists attribute behavior to enduring ______.
traits
The five major dimensions of personality are extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, ________, and openness to experience.
neuroticism
“Big Five” traits of personality and their widespread adoption and acceptance owes much to the research and theory of Robert McCrae and________
Paul Costa
Presently, most researchers who study personality traits agree that _____, and only _____, and no fewer than _____ dominant traits continue to emerge from factor analytic techniques.
5
Hans J. Eysenck insisted that only _____ major factors can be discerned by a factor analytic approach
three
Allport’s major contribution to trait theory may have been his identification of nearly ______ trait names in an unabridged English language dictionary.
18,000
The Five-Factor Theory (often called_______) includes neuroticism and extraversion; but it adds openness to experience, agreeableness, and conscientiousness.
the Big Five
Cattell and McCrae and Costa both used an _______ of gathering data; that is, they began with no preconceived bias concerning the number or name of traits or types.
inductive method
The largest and most frequently studied of the normal traits are the __ personality factors found on Cattell’s (1949) ____ Personality Factors Questionnaire (__ PF Scale).
16
Factor analysis is largely the collection and quantifying of observations, and then demonstrating ________.
correlations
Traits generated through factor analysis may be either _______ or bipolar.
unipolar
The advocates of the Five-Factor Theory favor the ________ rotation.
orthogonal
The Big Five began as a ___________________ ; that is, a classification system.
taxonomy
Costa and McCrae’s first two factors were neuroticism and ____________________.
extraversion
Costa and McCrae’s A factor represents __________________
agreeableness
