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PSYC 102

Personality
Personality

• Many conceptualizations of the nature of


personality.
- Dog lovers vs. Cat lovers.
- Gosling et al (2010).
• Personality.
- A person’s characteristic pattern of
emotions, thoughts, and behavior.
- Stability.
- Distinctiveness.
• Do animals have personalities?
- Gosling (1998).
Trait Models of Personality

• A person’s personality is based on a


combination of traits.
• Traits exist on a continuum.
• How many personality traits exist?
- Allport and Odbert (1936).
• Fundamental/basic traits determine more
specific traits.
• Raymond Cattell.
- Factor analysis.
- Identified 16 basic traits.
The Big Five Personality Traits

• Robert McCrae and Paul Costa.


- Five-factor model of personality.
- Lexical approach.
- OCEAN/CANOE.
Psychoanalytical Theory
Psychoanalytical Theory
Psychoanalytical Theory
Personality Assessment
• Valid and reliable personality
assessments are difficult to construct.
• Phrenology.
• William Sheldon.
- Body types correlate with
personality traits.
• Reliability.
• Validity.
Structured Personality Tests

• Rational/theoretical method of test construction.


• NEO Personality Inventory-Revised (NEO-PI-R;
Costa & McCrae, 1992a).
- 240 items.
- 30 scales measuring specific personality
traits.
- Scales are grouped into the five factors.
- Six scales per factor.
Projective Tests

• Projective Hypothesis.
• The Rorschach Inkblot Test.
- Hermann Rorschach.
- Contains ten symmetrical inkblots.
- Five in black and white.
- five in color.
- Respondents are asked to examine
the inkblots and describe what they
resemble.
- Issues with the Rorschach
Inkblot Test.
Projective Tests

• Thematic Apperception Test


(TAT; Murray & Morgan,
1935).
- 31 cards depicting
ambiguous situations.
- “Tell a Tale”.
- Impressionistic scoring.
- Issues with the TAT.

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