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Question 1

What are personality traits?

Answer 1

Individual characteristics, behaviors, and conscious motives of an individual that remain stable over a long period of time

Question 2

Gordon Allport determined that a person’s personality is made up of central traits, secondary traits, and rarely cardinal traits. Describe those traits

Answer 2

Cardinal traits: Strong dominant traits that are the main identifying factor of a person (these traits are rare)Central traits: Strong traits, but not the only defining trait a person has Secondary traits: Less influential, these are situation specific characteristics

Question 3

Describe how Hans Eysenck and Sybil Eysenck looked at an individual’s personality.

Answer 3

A person could look at a person’s personality in two ways. 1) Extraversion vs introversion 2)Emotional stability vs instability

Question 4

what does factor analysis do?

Answer 4

It is a way of isolating different variables in a person’s personality