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People with this trait tend to plan ahead, think about how their behavior affects others, and are mindful of deadlines.
What is conscientiousness?
This method of research focuses on the patterns of traits that characterize whole persons, rather than on the traits directly
What is the typological approach?
Hans Eysenck considered which three traits to be essential?
What are neuroticism, extraversion, and psychoticism?
The Big Five trait of ________ captures the tendency for individuals to experience positive emotions.
What is extraversion?
American psychologist who was among the first to comprehensively study personality
Who is Gordon Allport?
This acronym can also be used to refer to a large body of water in a different context.
OCEAN
People who are high in ______ tend to have a broad range of interests.
What is openness?
People who are low in this personality trait or introverted tend to be more reserved.
What is introversion?
In this type of personality test, a researcher shows you various cards with pictures on them and asks you to tell a story about the scene and people in the pictures.
What is a projective personality test?
This theorist identified ~4,000 words that describe personalities in a dictionary & categorized them
Who is Gordon Allport?
Objective tests yield this kind of data.
What is S-data?
This method of research examines which traits are most important.
What is the essential trait approach?
After creating a massive correlation matrix of hundreds of items on the University of Illinois basketball court, this researcher discovered 16 essential traits.
Who is Cattell?
This debate claims that people act in different ways than their personalities or situations suggest
What is the person-situation debate?
This method of research examines the behavior patterns of specific types of individuals
What is the single-trait approach?
These three sections describe the three-tiered hierarchy of traits.
What is cardinal, central, secondary?
According to Allport, these traits are dominant, expressed in all aspects of life.
What are cardinal traits?
This group of psychologists claim that situations are more important than personality traits for determining what people do (their behavior)
Who are situationists?
IQ tests yield this kind of data
What is B-data?
Eyseneck's tests with this population contributed to his theory’s belief in the heritability of personality.
What are primates?
This model expands the CANOE model of personality by adding the traits honesty/humility.
What is the HEXACO model?
Report cards, public records, and social media followers are examples of this kind of data.
What is L data?
One of this psychologist's and author's laws state "There are no perfect indicators of personality; there are only clues, and clues are always ambiguous."
Who is Funder?