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Theories of Personality: Cattell

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This deck covers key concepts and theories related to Cattell's approach to personality, including traits, factor analysis, and types of intelligence.

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Predict how a person will behave in response to a given stimulus situation; Study personality, not treat it; subject were called normal ppl

16 PF theory
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Definition
Predict how a person will behave in response to a given stimulus situation; Study personality, not treat it; subject were called normal ppl
16 PF theory
Father of personality trait approach
Raymond cattell
Correlations of the original, specific scores with the factors
factor loading
Used an oblique rotation to give factors psychological meaning; more factors result
cattell’s method of FA
Relatively permanent reaction tendencies that are the basic structural units of the personality
Traits
Is a correlational procedure that uses measures collected from one person on many different occasions and is his attempt to measure unique rather than common traits
p technique
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Theories of Personality: Cattell
TermDefinition
Predict how a person will behave in response to a given stimulus situation; Study personality, not treat it; subject were called normal ppl
16 PF theory
Father of personality trait approach
Raymond cattell
Correlations of the original, specific scores with the factors
factor loading
Used an oblique rotation to give factors psychological meaning; more factors result
cattell’s method of FA
Relatively permanent reaction tendencies that are the basic structural units of the personality
Traits
Is a correlational procedure that uses measures collected from one person on many different occasions and is his attempt to measure unique rather than common traits
p technique
Temporary conditions within an individual
states
Refer to the underlying factor responsible for the intercorrelation among surface traits
Source traits
General style and emotional tone of our behavior
temperament
driving forces of behavior (e.g. motivation, ambitions)
dynamic traits
23 normal traits and 12 abnormal traits
pathological people
Characteristics that correlate with one another but do not constitute a factor because they are not determined by a single source; less stable and permanent
Surface traits
Originate in biological conditions but are not necessarily innate (e.g. alcohol intake lead to carelessness, talkativeness)
Constitutional traits
From influences in our social and physical environment
Environmental-mold traits
Dynamic traits
attitudes, ergs, sems
Refers to a specific course of action or desire to act, in response to a given situation
Attitudes
Innate drives or motives that humans share with other primates
Ergs
Are learned or acquired dynamic traits that can satisfy several ergs at the same time; sentiments
Sems
A complex network of attitudes, ergs and sems underlying a person’s motivational structure
The Dynamic lattice
The ability to adapt to new material
fluid intelligence
Depends on prior learning
Crystallized intelligence