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Hans Eysenck
________ was an important figure who helped personality psychology by arguing that theories need to be the main focus and then it would be easier to figure out what needs to be measured.
Raymond Cattell
________ was another important figure that helped pave the way for how personality is perceived today.
Conscientiousness
________ describes how someone may express traits such as being organized, industrious, and efficient.
Extroversion
________ predicts success in social clubs like fraternities and sororities, but agreeableness does not.
jitteriness
Under- arousal, boredom, leads to extroversion and over- arousal, ________, leads to introversion.
personality theory
The Big Five ________, also known as the "OCEAN "test states that individual traits are likely to fall in these five categories: openness to experience, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism.
Agreeableness
________ relates to maintaining positive social relations.
Melancholic
________ focuses on traits such as being quiet, unsociable, reserved, pessimistic, sober, rigid, anxious, and moody.
Neuroticism
________ describes one's level of emotionality.
Phlegmatic
________ focuses on traits such as being calm, even- tempered, reliable, controlled, peaceful, thoughtful, carefree, and passive.
Choleric
________ focuses on trait such as being active, impulsive, optimistic, changeable, excitable, aggressive, restless, and touchy.
Sanguine
________ focuses on traits such as leadership, carefree, lively, easygoing, responsive, talkative, outgoing, and sociable.
higher levels of neuroticism
People with ________ tend to see changes in people and situations…tend to be easily upset and are prone to anxiety and depression.
Extroversion
________ is based on brain activities that determine ones level of arousal.
Raymond Cattell
_________ was another important figure that helped pave the way for how personality is perceived today. he went straight towards three types of data which are called life, experimental, and questionnaire based. He also created the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire.
The Big Five (OCEAN)
_________ states that individual traits are likely to fall in these five categories: openness to experience, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. It is also considered to be highly reliable and widely applicable in many situations and has a high degree of predictability in many contests. Its reliability shifts as a person develops.
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