FFM

Question 1

Personality traits

Answer 1

Personality traits are the relatively enduring patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behaviours that reflect the tendency to respond in certain ways under certain circumstances (Sanchez-Roige et al., 2017)

Question 2

Personality types

Answer 2

Personality types are broad, categorical classifications based on a collection of traits

Question 3

What does Hippocrates Four Humours propose?

Answer 3

The body consists of 4 humours or bodily fluids. The predominance of one of these fluids determine our unique temperamental characteristics resulting in a particular type of personality

Question 4

Who developed the Myer Briggs Type Indicator during WWII

Answer 4

Katharine Cook Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers

Question 5

Why was the Myer Briggs Type Indicator developed?

Answer 5

To help people understand themselves and others, leading to better communication and collaboration

Question 6

Who developed lexical hypothesis

Answer 6

Sir Francis Galton

Question 7

Lexical hypothesis

Answer 7

Individual differences between people that are important become encoded in language as single words

Question 8

Strengths of Cattell’s 16PF Model

Answer 8

1. First empirically derived model of personality traits
2. Identified the importance of genetic and environmental contributions to the development of personality
3. Broader and more nuanced than FFM

Question 9

Weaknesses of Cattell’s 16PF Model

Answer 9

1. Irreproducibility
2. Reliability of factor analysis
3. Cultural considerations

Question 10

Who pioneered the Big Five Model

Answer 10

Costa (1985) and McCrae (1992)

Question 11

Big Five Model OCEAN

Answer 11

Openness
Conscientiousness
Extraversion
Agreeableness
Neuroticism

Question 12

Strengths of FFM

Answer 12

1. Widespread acceptance
2. Practical utility
3. Can help with communication and collaboration
4. Predictive

Question 13

Weaknesses of FFM

Answer 13

1. Lack of theoretical basis
2. Descriptive
3. Generic