Personality Approaches and Psychometrics

What does orthogonal mean?

Which model of personality is most popular?

Name the first two personality dimensions Eysenck developed?

What did he do for each dimension?

What was extroversion paired with?

What was neuroticism paired with?

What were the four categories when the two dimensions were crossed?

What is a neurotic introvert?

"Neurotic Extrovert

"Stable Introvert

"Stable Extrovert

What was the third dimension Eysenck developed?

Why did he add this dimension?

What is psychoticism?

What was developed from these personality dimensions?

Who made the big 5?

What are the 5 personality traits in the big 5?

Example of what each measure in OCEAN

PSYCHOMETRICS:

What personality questionnaire can Eysencks dimensions be measured on?

What did the questionnaire contain?

Example Question measuring Extraversion?
Example Question measuring Neuroticism?

Criticisms of EPQ-R

What is key when evaluating a questionnaire?

What is internal consistency?

What is internal consistency used to measure?

What measure is used nowadays?

What is Cronbachs alpha?

What does it mean if Cronbachs Alpha is only moderate?

What score is classed as good in Cronbach's alpha?

How do Eysencks Psychoticism traits hang together?

Who found the the dimensions of extraversion and neuroticism are reliable?

What did they do?

What did they find?

Interpretation

What did this study lead to?

What did Francis et al 1992 also find regarding orthogonality?

BIS/BAS Internal consistency:

Who used Cronbachs alpha for BIS/BAS?

What did they find?

What else did Carver and White test?

What did they do?

Result:

What else did they test?

Result:

What did Torrubia et al 2001 use Cronbachs alpha for?

What did they find?

What did Tagahashi et al 2007 find?

Who invented factor analysis?

Who developed and popularised factor analysis?

What is the aim of factor analysis?

Who argued that using factor analysis when looking at diverse assessment of personality you end up conforming to a 5 dimesion structure?

Name each personality dimension of the big 5 and their links to other personality systems in the brain:

How did Gray state his SPSR axis fit onto Eysencks personality axis of Extraversion/Neuroticism?

How did he change this later?

How did an anxious person to Gray fit onto Eysencks axis?

How did an anxious person on Eysenck fit into Gray?

What are the two key aims of personalty research?

What are the big 2?

What is the brain system argued to control Neuroticism/stability?

"Extraversion/Introversion?

Who came after Eysenck and Gray and argued that humans have four temperament domains and three character domains?

What are they?

How did the temperaments link to other personality concepts?

What are the definitions for:
Harm Avoidance:
Novelty Seeking:

What was found when Cloningers tri-dimension personality questionnaire (tpq) against Carver and White's BIS/BAS questionnaire?

What was found comparing Cloningers TPQ vs Torrubias SPSRQ?

What did McCrae and Costa aim to do 1987 with the big 5?

What was used?

What is this?

Example:

What was found with several characteristics?

What were the results of the factor loading?

What else was found?

What was honesty/humility linked to?

What would this have been known as?

Who investigated which personality factors best predict college performance?

What did they do?

Results:

Interpretation:

Who was this result mirrored by?

Result:

Who challenged the results about conscientiousness?

What did they argue?

What did they do?

What performance measures were taken?

Results:

What result were found in study 2:

Interpretation:

Who performed a meta-analysis on 117 studies looking into various occupation groups and their relationship with big 5 personality dimensions?

What did they look at?

Results:

Interpretation:

Who did a meta-analysis on 137 personality traits and subjective well being?

What did they do?

What did they find?

What was their final measure of?