Reading:
- Moghaddam: Chapter 13
- Richards: none
Audio Links:
Lecture Outline:
Meaning of “personality”
- The quality of being a person
“Trait” as a descriptive construct
- Consistencies in behaviour that characterize an individual
- Set of stable characteristics that distinguish a person
Trait as an explanatory construct
- Are traits causes or effects?
- Do traits limit one’s degrees of freedom?
How many traits?
- Reserved/Outgoing
Affected by feelings/Emotionally stable
Trusting/Suspicious
- Introversion/Extroversion
Stability/Neuroticism
Impulse-control/Psychoticism
- The Big Five
- O penness to experience
C onscientiousness
E xtroversion/Introversion
A greeableness
N euroticism
- Enough to account for individual differences?
- Group, cultural differences
- Interpersonal relatedness
Psychometrics
- Measurement of traits
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Self reports – 16PF, EPQ, MMPI
- EPQ example
- Correlation and factor analysis
- Large group focus
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Reports of familiar others
Idiographic (vs. nomothetic) approaches to personality study
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White’s The Study of Lives (BF 698 W462)
- Henry Murray
- Gordon Allport
Can traits change, be changed?
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Theories of personality
- Meaning of “self”
- Alternatives to trait approaches
- Social construction
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