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Personality
A person's unique and relatively stable behavior patterns.
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Trait Theory
Personality consists of broad, enduring dispositions that tend to lead to characteristic responses
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Trait
An enduring personality characteristic that tends to lead to certain behaviors
- -Trait Theorists
- -Biological predisposition
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Common Traits
Characteristics shared by most members of a culture
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Individual Traits
Personal traits that define a person's unique individual qualities
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Cardinal Traits
A trait that is so basic that all of a person's activities relate to it
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Central Traits
Core traits that characterize an individual personality
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Secondary Traits
Traits that are inconsistent or relatively superficial
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Eyesenck's Dimensions of Personality
- Introversion-Extraversion-Quit, unsociable, passive, & careful vs
- -Active, optimistic, sociable, & outgoing
Stable-Unstable
-Calm, even-tempered, carefree, & capable - vs
- -Moody, anxious, restless, & touchy
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Surface Traits
- the visible areas of personality
- visible or observable traits
- Cattell
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Source Traits
- Underlying characteristics of a personality
- Each one is reflected in many surface traits
- Cattell
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Five Factor Model of Personality
Proposes that there are five universal dimensions of personality.
- -Openness
- -Conscientiousness
- -Extraversion
- -Agreeableness
- -Neuroticism (emotional stability)
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