Personality - Shows how people are different - Different theories = Type. Trait. Factors, Bio.
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Degree with Hons Personality - DSE 212 Mapa Mental sobre Personality - Shows how people are different - Different theories = Type. Trait. Factors, Bio., creado por cutiemcpouty el 20/05/2013.
Personality - Shows how people are different - Different theories = Type. Trait. Factors, Bio.
Studied via :
MOSTLY Nomothetic - Scientific / Quantitative
Questionnaires
Based on Laws of Behaviour and can be generalised to everyone
Used to compare people with one another
STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES
Idiographic - Qualitative / Uniqueness
Case Studies, interviews - reflect uniqueness
Personality IS :
Characteristics of - Behaviour, attitudes, capabilities & interests
Its unique and means different things to different people
Should help predict future behaviour - and put people into brackets
CONSISTENT - Developed over a lifetime
RELATIVELY STABLE
Personally - Helps us make sense of ourselves and others
Professionally - lets us assess people by groups - schemas or stereotyping- tell if suited to a job
Ie - always early
A personality theory should describe STRUCTURE and DYNAMICS of how the behaviour is produced., Explain why they are always early.
TRAIT THEORIES
GALTON -1822 - 1911
Introduced PSYCHOMETRICS = collection of data that describes the range (highest/lowest) and distribution of INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN PERSONALITY
PSYCHOMETRICS SIMPLIFIED = MEASUREMENT OF PERSONALITY
Offers Consistency - people are consistent to the world and each other.
Difference between TRAIT (constant characteristic) and STATE (short lived experience) = eg might be a punctual person but traffic might mean you are late.
TRAITS remain constant - eg people with a punctuality trait prefer to be early.
INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES APPROACH
EG - Reliable - Unreliable or Introvert - Extrovert
Connects
TRAITS
PERSONALITY CHARACTERISTIC THAT MAKES SOMEONE DIFFERENT FROM ANOTHER
OR ..DESCRIBES INDIVIDUAL'S PERSONALITY
TRAIT SCORES
Continuous variable - person gives number score to show how much of a trait that person has
GREAT MANY TRAITS TO DECRIBE PEOPLE
A person can be described on EVERY TRAIT
WORDS TO DESCRIBE TRAITS:
EXTRAVERSION, INTERVERSION, NEUROTICISM
THESE TRAITS CAN ALSO BE CONSIDERED FACTORS BECAUSE THEY ARE SO BROAD