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An assessment which scores the five major dimensions of personality.
OCEAN
What are the five major dimensions of personality in OCEAN
Openness
Conscientousness
Extraversion
Agreeableness
Neuroticism
The english psychologist who used factor analysis to figure out the 16 common personality traits.
Raymond Cattell
Following Cattell’s 16 personality traits, what psychologist identified from the 16 three broad personality factors (Neuroticism, Extraversion, and Psychoticism)
Hans J. Eysenck
Following Eysenck’s three broad traits, who two psychologists disagreed with Esyenck’s psychoticism, and initially proposed the factor openness but soon added conscientousness and agreeableness
Costa and McCrae
The OCEAN dimension of personality which entails the willingness to experience new things and is characterized by creativity, curiosity, and imaginativeness
Openness
The OCEAN dimension of personality which entails the individuals tendency to be organized, disciplined, and goal-directed
Conscientousness
The OCEAN dimension of personality which describes a person’s ability to put others needs before one’s own. This includes characteristics such as empathy, and sometimes people pleasing.
Agreeableness
The OCEAN dimension of personality which is characterized by sociability, activeness, and expressiveness.
Extraversion
The OCEAN dimension of personality which describes the trait disposition to experience negative affect, such as anger, anxiety, irritability, and emotional instability
Neuroticism
What are the cultural implications of personality tests
Traits vary across many different cultures therefore many of these tests do not accurately assess traits of non-white individuals.
Which scientist formulated the theory of conditioning
Ivan Pavlov
What is operant conditioning
Learning process where behavior is modified through a reward and punishment based system
What experiment led to the discovery of operant conditioning
Skinner and his rat
The rat would either push a button which gave food or pull a lever which shocked the rat.
What is positive and negative reinforcement
Positive is when a favorable outcomes are given after the behavior
Negative is when an unfavorable event is removed after the behavior
What is positive and negative punishment
Positive is adding a punishment to weaken behavior
Negative is removing favorable event to weaken behavior
