Personality Flashcards
what are dispositional approaches to personality?
views personality as consistent and unchanging ways to act, think, and feel, regardless of context
what are types?
categorical or qualitative differences
what are traits?
continuous, quantitative differences reflecting internal psychological dispositions
nomothetic approaches consider..
general patterns applicable to everyone
the lexical hypothesis
individual personality traits are encoded into language, and their importance impacts how much they’re talked about
what do statistical approaches involve?
factor analysis to identify trait clusters
cattell’s 16 factor system
- reserved
- less intelligence
- affected by feelings
- submissive
- serious
- expedient
- timid
- tough-minded
- trusting
- practical
- forthright
- self-assured
- conservative
- group-dependent
- undisciplined
- relaxed
HEXACO
- honesty-humility
- emotionality
- extraversion
- agreeableness
- conscientiousness
6, openness to experience
eysenck’s hierarchal model
extraversion, neuroticism, and psychoticism
- statistical and theoretical account
FFM
openness to experience
conscientiousness
extraversion
agreeableness
neuroticism
orthogonal traits
entirely unrelated to each other
what are supertraits?
main traits with different facets underlying them
FFM: where is most consistency seen?
neuroticism and emotional stability
disagreement over the notion of openness to experience
- different definitions between cultures
general factor of personality
suggests a healthy basis of personality and formative way of functioning