Personality
Sixth edition
Chapter 8
Trait Aspects of
Personality
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Modules
Introduction: Trait Aspects of Personality
8.1: The History of Trait Approaches
8.2: Gordon Allport’s Trait Psychology
8.3: The Big Five
8.4: Personality Judgments
8.5: Types
8.6: Motives
8.7: Expressive Style
Conclusion: Trait Aspects of Personality
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Learning Objectives (1 of 2)
8.1: Evaluate the development of different approaches to analyzing traits
8.2: Analyze the claims made by Gordon Allport’s trait psychology
8.3: Examine the five dimensions of the most common trait approaches to personality
8.4: Examine how people judge the personalities of other people
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Learning Objectives (1 of 2)
8.5: Review the concept of personality types
8.6: Use the concept of motive to understand personality
8.7: Scrutinize the relationship between personality and expressive style
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Introduction: Trait Aspects of Personality?
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Different approaches to analyzing traits
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Five dimensions of most common trait approaches to personality
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8.1: The History of Trait Approaches
Objective: Evaluate the development of different approaches to analyzing traits
Traits for characters in stories
Greek contribution
Modern approaches
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8.1.1: Jung’s Extroversion and Introversion
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Trait approaches
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Myers-Brigg Type Indicator
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8.1.2: The Use of Statistics
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Factor analysis
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Cattell’s approach
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8.1.3: Q-data,T-data, L-data, and the 16PF
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Q-data
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T-data
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L-data
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8.2: Gordon Allport’s Trait Psychology
Objective: Analyze the claims made by Gordon Allport’s trait psychology
Allport’s first meeting with Freud
Allport’s approach
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8.2.1: The Importance of Culture
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Studying prejudice
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Studying cultural influences on personality
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8.2.2: Functional Equivalence
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Drawbacks of factor analysis
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Allport’s solution
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8.2.3: Common Traits
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Common biological heritage
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Childhood experiences
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8.2.4: Personal Dispositions
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Idiographic methods
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Nuclear quality
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What is personal disposition?
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8.3: The Big Five
Objective: Examine the five dimensions of the most common trait approaches to personality
Extroversion
Agreeableness
Conscientiousness
Neuroticism
Openness
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8.3.1: How Was the Big Five Model Developed?
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Overview
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Factor analysis
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8.3.2: Career Pathways and Other Important Outcomes
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Extroverts
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Conscientiousness
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Agreeableness
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Entrepreneurs
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8.3.3: More Than Five? Fewer Than Five?
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Derived from new knowledge
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Cattell’s scheme
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8.3.4: Eysenck’s Big Three and Related Alternatives
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Hans Eysenck
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Eysenck’s theory
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8.3.5: Evidence for Eysenck’s Approach
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Study: Zuckerman, Joireman, Kraft, & Kuhlman, 1999
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Point 2: Study: Wilt & Revelle, 2009
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Point 3: Study: Lucas & Diener, 2001
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Point 4: Study: Canli, 2006; Canli et al., 2001
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8.4: Personality Judgments
Objective: Examine how people judge the personalities of other people
Love at first sight
Implications
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8.4.1: Consensus in Personality Judgments
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Strangers making judgments
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Self-rating
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Peers and friends making judgments
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8.4.2: Limits of Trait Conceptions
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Other aspects that affect
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Are professionals better?
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8.5: Types
Objective: Review the concept of personality types
Different types of personality
Type theories
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8.6: Motives
Objective: Use the concept of motive to understand personality
What are motives?
Types of needs
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