Chapter 13 TF Flashcards
Personality psychologists are more likely to attribute behavior to situational traits.
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Historically psychologists concur on a unique set of personality traits that target the major dimensions of personality.
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There are ten major dimensions of personality that have been widely accepted by personality psychologists.
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Hans J. Eysenck insisted that only seven major factors can be discerned by a factor analytic approach.
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The Five-Factor Theory (often called the Big Five) includes neuroticism and extraversion; but it adds openness to experience, agreeableness, and conscientiousness.
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Traits are more stable than states.
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Cattell and McCrae and Costa both used an deductive method of gathering data.
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Cattell used three different media of observation to examine people called X data, Y data, and Z data.
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Cattell classified traits into temperament, motivation, and ability.
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The largest and most frequently studied of Cattell’s normal traits are the 16 personality factors found on Cattell’s (1949) Sixteen Personality Factors Questionnaire (16 PF Scale).
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Factor anaylsis is based solely upon the observations of people’s behaviors.
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The advocates of the Five-Factor Theory favor the orthogonal rotation to demonstrate fewer, meaningful traits
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McCrae and Costa are currently the only researchers seriously investigating the Big Five factors.
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McCrae and Costa do not consider the Big Five to be a theory.
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According to McCrae and Costa, the Five Factor Model and the Five Factor Theory are terms that can be used interchangeably.
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