There are many different theories on personality and many different approaches. I am going to talk about the Trait‚ Cognitive‚ and Motivational approaches and how they apply to me as an individual. TRAIT APPROACH Trait theory is based on several assumptions. The first assumption is that any difference between people that is seen as significant will have a name. The second is that these names‚ knows as traits‚ and are conceived of as continuous dimensions. In general‚ Trait Theory assumes that people
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PSY_C14.qxd 1/2/05 3:42 pm Page 292 Personality 14 CHAPTER OUTLINE LEARNING OBJECTIVES INTRODUCTION WHAT IS PERSONALITY? PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORIES – FREUD AND BEYOND Freud’s models of the mind In the wake of Freud HUMANISTIC THEORIES – INDIVIDUALITY The drive to fulfil potential Understanding our own psychological world TRAIT THEORIES – ASPECTS OF PERSONALITY Cattell’s 16 trait dimensions Eysenck’s supertraits Five factors of personality Trait debates BIOLOGICAL AND GENETIC THEORIES
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The Big Five Personality traits that are most related to my personality are extraversion‚ agreeableness‚ emotional stability and openness to experience. In social settings I find myself to be very extroverted and agreeable to others. Furthermore‚ I tend to connect with people very easily and enjoy learning about other people as well. On the other hand‚ I recognize that I am very self-monitoring of my behavior‚ depending on the social environment. For example‚ when I am in a less sociable environment
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my self-rated scores on the HEXACO personality measure and Swartz’s value scale with those of the evaluation done by one of my long term and good friends‚ I actually found that for the most part he knows me pretty well and many of our scores were similar. In fact‚ every single score was within 1 point of each other’s. Although it would have been interesting to have some disparities in certain categories this is ok too as it gives me re-assurance of my personality and values. A particular score I was
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DISCUSSION PAPER SERIES IZA DP No. 4105 Occupational Choice: Personality Matters Roger Ham P.N. (Raja) Junankar Robert Wells April 2009 Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit Institute for the Study of Labor Occupational Choice: Personality Matters Roger Ham University of Western Sydney P.N. (Raja) Junankar University of Western Sydney and IZA Robert Wells University of Western Sydney Discussion Paper No. 4105 April 2009 IZA P.O. Box 7240 53072 Bonn Germany Phone:
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what Are the Big Five Dimensions of Personality? Personality researchers have proposed that there are five basic dimensions of personality. Evidence of this theory has been growing over the past 50 years‚ beginning with the research of D. W. Fiske (1949) and later expanded upon by other researchers including Norman (1967)‚ Smith (1967)‚ Goldberg (1981)‚ and McCrae & Costa (1987). The "big five" are broad categories of personality traits. While there is a significant body of literature supporting
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The Nomothetic approach is an approach to personality assessment. The term comes from the Greek word "nomos" which means law. In an online dictionary homothetic is defined as "giving or establishing laws". Look for universal laws of behaviour. It is based on traditional‚ classical science. In psychology the nomothetic approach focuses on people in general‚ trying to find regularities or laws between people. The approach was proposed by a German philosopher Wilhelm Windelband in the 19th century.
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that those who listen to metal music harbor a great deal of angst and are extremely violent‚ or that those who listen to classical music are sophisticated and intelligent. It seems that in general‚ society instantly makes assumptions about the personalities of others based on their musical interests‚ but how can they assume that these initial stereotypes are scientifically accurate‚ or have any support behind them? If this was known for certain‚ it would be easier to read other people and determine
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Stacy Witkowski 07/08/2013 The big five personality test consisted of five different categories‚ openness‚ conscientiousness‚ extraversion‚ agreeableness‚ and natural reactions. First off I think each category is extremely important when dealing with nursing‚ they play essential roles regarding their everyday work environment. With that being said I think the way a nurse scores is more or less equivalent to the type of they are with their patients. The first category is openness‚ which can mean
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There are perhaps hundreds of personality traits that exist which have been documented by Psychologists however there are a few that are very prominent in different types of people. According to well known Psychologist’s‚ Costa & McCrae‚ have come up with the big five personality traits which determines how strong a person is based on these five traits. These personality traits are: openness to experience‚ conscientiousness‚ extraversion‚ agreeableness‚ and neuroticism. The first trait is known
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