The Big Five + Impulsivity

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What are the Big 5?

  • Openness to Experience

  • Conscientiousness

  • Agreeableness

  • Extraversion

  • Neuroticism

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Openness to Experience

Represents individual differences in curiosity, fantasy, appreciation of art and beauty, and social attitudes

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Conscientiousness

Represents individual differences in being methodical, planning, impulse control, and respecting and abiding by conventional social norms and rules 

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Extraversion

Reflects individual differences in sociability, social ascendency, activity, excitement seeking, and positive emotionality

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Agreeableness

Reflects individual differences in compliance, empathy, collaboration, and altruism

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Neuroticism

Individual differences in the tendency to experience frequently and intensively negative emotions such as anxiety, fear, depression, and irritability, as well as having low self-esteem

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What is the positive pole of neuroticism?

Emotional stability 

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Strengths of the Big 5 Model

  • Comparative (across samples, measures raters, cultures, languages)

  • Numerous meta-analyses with outcomes

  • Strong correlations between traits vs. psychopathology (question of which comes first)

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Weaknesses of the Big 5 Model 

  • Lacks context and situation, which influence how personality traits impact behavior 

  • There is more to a person than what fits into trait categories 

    • time, place, and roles matter

    • motivational, development, and strategic terms

    • Goals/motives have an end state

  • Unclear whether psychopathology or personality traits comes first

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3 Traits in the Dark Triad

  • Narcissism 

  • Machiavellianism

  • Psychopathy

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Narcissism

Characterized by grandiosity, pride, egotism, and lack of empathy

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Machiavellianism

Characterized by manipulation and exploitation of others, a lack of morality, callousness, and extremely self-centered

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Psychopathy

Characterized by antisocial behavior (how you view social norms and rules), impulsivity, selfishness, callous and unemotional traits, remorselessness 

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Which two Big 5 traits are most closely tied to the Dark Triad? How are they related?

Agreeableness and conscientiousness; higher scores in these lead to lower scores on the dark triad (traits are correlated with empathy and rule following)

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Impulsivity

Tendency to act without thinking, the difficulty to evaluate the consequences of a behavior, the inability to inhibit an ongoing response, or even the preference for immediate and small rewards over larger but delayed rewards

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Eysenck Three Factor Theory (70s-80s)

  • Neuroticism, Extraversion, Psychoticism

  • 4 basic impulsivity dimensions (impulsiveness is a part of psychoticism)

    • Narrow impulsiveness

    • risk-tasking

    • non-planning

    • liveliness

  • Sensation seeking and venturesomeness is part of extraversion

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What are the three factors in Eysenck’s Three Factor Theory? Which one is impulsiveness a part of

Neuroticism, extraversion, psychoticism. Impulsiveness is a part of psychoticism

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What are the 4 basic impulsivity dimensions as mentioned in Eysenck Three Factor Theory?

  • Narrow impulsiveness

  • Risk-taking

  • Non-planning

  • Liveliness

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In Eysenck Three Factor Theory, which two aspects of impulsiveness are a part of extraversion (and not psychoticism)?

Sensation seeking and venturesomeness

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Buss and Plomin 4 Facet Conceptualization of Impulsivity (1975)

  • Inhibitory control (core feature)

  • Tendency to consider alternatives and consequences before making a decision 

  • Ability to remain with a task despite competing temptations 

  • Tendency to become bored and need to seek novel stimuli 

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What is the core feature of Buss and Plomin 4 Facet Conceptualization of Impulsivity?

Inhibitory Control

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Barratt - 3 facets (1990s)

  • Attentional impulsiveness (the ability to focus on tasks at hand and cognitive instability)

  • Motor impulsiveness (acting on the spur of the moment and perseverance)

  • Non-planning (self-control and cognitive complexity)

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Attentional impulsiveness

the ability to focus on tasks at hand and cognitive instability

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Motor Impulsiveness

acting on the spur of the moment and perseverance

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UPPS-P Model

  • Urgency (Negative and Positive)

  • Premeditation (Lack of)

  • Perseverance (Lack of)

  • Sensation Seeking

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What is the difference between negative urgency and positive urgency in the UPPS-P Model?

  • Negative Urgency - rash actions taken in response to negative emotional state (drinking to cope)

  • Positive urgency - rash actions in response to positive emotions (partying after a win)

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How is perseverance defined in the UPPS-P Model?

Tendency to remain focused on a task (lack of perseverance)

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How is premeditation defined in the UPPS-P Model?

Tendency to act without thinking (lack of premeditation)

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Sensation Seeking

Tendency to seek out novel and thrilling experiences

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What is Urgency (negative or positive) in the UPPS-P Model related to?

Problematic substance use via poor coping methods

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What is premeditation (lack of) in the UPPS-P Model related to?

Antisocial personality disorder, dementia, or psychopathy

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What is perseverance in the UPPS-P Model related to?

ADHD

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What is sensation seeking in the UPPS-P Model related to?

substance use and gambling

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