Week 3 Personality Overview

Question 1

Personality

Answer 1

Enduring patterns of thoughts, feelings, motivations, and behaviours. Relatively stable. Unique and adaptive.

Question 2

Three ways we describe personality

Answer 2

Human nature- like all others

Individual and group differences- like some others

Individual uniqueness- like no others

Question 3

Personality Traits

Answer 3

Emotional, cognitive and behaviour tendencies which are unique to individuals

Question 4

Eysenck’s super traits

Answer 4

Extraversion – Introversion

Neuroticism – Emotional Stability

Psychoticism – Low Psychoticism

Question 5

BAS & BIS

Answer 5

Behavioural approach systems (BAS) attuned to rewards

Behavioural inhibition system (BIS) attuned to punishment

Question 6

The Factor Model Traits

Answer 6

Openness to experience

Conscientiousness

Agreeableness

Extroversion

Neuroticism

Question 7

Openness to Experience

Answer 7

Includes characteristics such as creativity, spontaneity, flexible in ideas.

Question 8

Feline five traits

Answer 8

Neuroticism

Extraversion

Dominance

Impulsivity

Agreeableness

Question 9

Trait Perspective

Answer 9

Dispositional, looks at how individuals differ from one another, Gordon Allport developed the trait approach in the 1950’s

Question 10

Identifying Traits

Answer 10

Lexical - Traits are encoded within our languages (describing people based on traits)

Statistical - Using traits emerged from language and using statistical analysis to determine key traits

Theoretical - Using theory and what theory suggests is the more important trait