Personality 210 Psychology Notes (Part 3) Continuing Traits and Trait Traditions

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Plato

________ is an important Greek philosopher that influenced how personality can be perceived today by proposing that the soul /mind, also called the "Psyche, "is composed of three parts.

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Taxonomies

________ are descriptive models or classifications based on similarities, function, structure, size, origin, etc.

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Traits

________ are expected to be dichotomous but in many cases are measured as a point on a continuum.

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Greece

An ancient tradition that took place in ________ described how individual traits refer to individual body parts, an example being that the heart and liver is associated with courage.

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Factor analysis

________ is a term that describes how if two qualities correlate when assessed across many people, they reflect a trait that contributes to both qualities.

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Confirmatory factor analysis

________ describes how," ...the goal…is to test theoretically derived hypotheses given a set of data ..."

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Traits

________ are distinguishable and stable patterns of behaviors and experiences.

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Traits

________ should also impact the individuals actions, emotions, and overall experiences.

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Exploratory factor analysis

________ describes how, “…the goal is…to let the data determine the interrelationships between variables.”

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