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| Raymond Cattell (1905-1998) Strategy |
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“All aspects of human personality which are or have been of importance, interest, or utility have already been recorded in the substance of LANGUAGE”
- Believed that the best measurement were these 16 factors |
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| What was Eysenck's Trait Theory? |
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| Three-Factor Model Eysneck - Factor's explained |
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Extraversion (how outgoing you are): Introvert <---> Extrovert
Neuroticism (how emotional you are): Highly emotional <---> Low emotional
Psychoticism (how likely you are to behave in a way that is delinquent in group behaviour):
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| Three-Factor Model Eysneck explanation |
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- Believed we could measure a person’s personality using only these three factors
- Clustered a series of statements that measure how extravert you are, neurotic or psychoticism
- Three dimensions where not connected, but each had a correlation to type of brain tissue
- Believed that people who were introverts have got a cortex that is more easily aroused and more frequent to fire, therefore do not want to get too much stimulation which could cause over-stimulation
- Extroverts are less easily aroused cortex, so have to seek stimulation and more arousal activities to get cortex stimulation |
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| What was McCraw and Costa Trait Theory? |
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The Big Five
(Not the makers of the big five, but early adaptors, moderators and users of Big Five) |
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| The Big Five McCraw and Costa - Factors explained |
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OCEAN = Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Neuroticism
Agreeableness: The tendency to agree and go along with others rather than to assert one’s own opinions and choices.
Conscientiousness: The tendency to be careful, to be punctual, following order and rules high achievement standard.
Extraversion: The tendency to be talkative, sociable, and to enjoy others; the tendency to have a dominant style.
Neuroticism: The tendency to frequently experience negative emotions such as anxiousness, anger, depression, self-consciousness.
Openness to experience: The tendency to be open to new ideas, new information, values, and behaviours.
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- Believed that five major factors can provide an effective framework for nomothetic assessment: Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Neuroticism
- Other researchers have argued that simpler clustering's of these may be sufficient, e.g. the Alpha (first three) and Beta (last two) dimensions, or Eysenck’s Extraversion/Neuroticism/Psychoticism dimensions
- Up to the individual researcher how many factors they chose to use
- Link the factors that link best to your research topic, i.e. what are you trying to find out about someone? Then select traits that relate tot hat particular behavior that you are researching |
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