Five Factor Model

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Big 5 is based on language and behavior which takes a

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Lexical approach

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The five factor model is a personality theory that is based on

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Biology and behavior

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FFM domains

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Neuroticism, extraversion, openness, agreeableness, conscientiousness

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Big 5 domains

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Emotion, extraversion, intellect, agreeableness, conscientiousness

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Both made up of five domains

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Openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism

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Big 5 ___ have hierarchy

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Doesn’t

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Five factor ____

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Five factor ____ have hierarchy

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Doesn’t

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Five factor model traits cause

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Behavior

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Big 5 no formal

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Causal statement

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FFM origins

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Biology

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Big 5 origins

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Natural language

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Looking at FFM in the context of the PEN model,

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Suggests Eysenck’s psychoticism is a conflation of conscientiousness and agreeableness

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There is zero evidence that there is a

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genetic or environmental influence on a trait

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Genome wide associations with the FFM Terraciano et al (2010) found regions

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Linked to ADHD, autism, morningness, and Alzheimer’s

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Structural MRI show that traits are

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Associated with brain regions associated with the behaviors linked to that trait

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Functional MRI show that

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Brain activity on a tasks varies as a function of a trait

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Neuroticism is associated with

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Amygdala

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Neuroticism and extraversion are associated with the

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Amygdala

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Agreeableness is associated with

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The superior temporal sulcus

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Openness is associated with

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The dorsolateral pre frontal cortex

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Conscientiousness is associated with the

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Lateral pre frontal cortex

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Critiques of five factor models

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The WEIRD problem, The Tsimane, Block (1995), neural bases

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The WEIRD problem

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The WEIRD problem

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Western Educated Industrialized Rich Democratic All cross cultural FFM work on WEIRD sample, if it’s truly universal we should see the FFM in preliterate, Hunter gather tribes

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The Tsimane

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Tribe that Gurven et al studied and found no evidence of FFM

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Block (1995)

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Problems with using factor analysis to determine personality, if you select items or adjectives to reflect five factors, that’s what you see

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Another problem with the FFM is what is considered agreeable and conscientious, for example,

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Changes over time

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Neural bases

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Current neurotic aging studies are descriptive rather than mechanistic

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Neural bases

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Current neurotic aging studies are descriptive rather than mechanistic