Review #1 (Chapter 3)

Question 1

What are traits and two ways of conceptualizing them?

Answer 1

stable tendencies of individuals, persons attributes/characteristics, conceptualize by internal causal properties, and descriptive summaries

Question 2

How have psychologists identified core traits?

Answer 2

lexical hypothesis, statistical approach (factor analysis) identify groups of traits that go together

Question 3

What are the major trait theories?

Answer 3

Cattell’s 16F source traits (submissive-dominant, relaxed-tense) Eysenck’s 3 super factors (extraversion, neuroticism, psychotics)

Question 4

What are the big five traits and their criticisms?

Answer 4

openness, conscientious, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism, criticisms include that its data-driven, truly comprehensive?