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Chapter 3: Traits and Trait Taxonomies

What is a Trait? Two Basic Formulations

  • Traits as Internal Causal Properties
  • Traits as Purely Descriptive Summaries

    • The Act Frequency Formulation of Traits— An Illustration of the Descriptive Summary Formulation

  • Act Frequency Research Program
  • Critique of the Act Frequency Formulation

    • Identification of the Most Important Traits

  • Lexical Approach
  • Statistical Approach
  • Theoretical Approach
  • Evaluating the Approaches for Identifying Important Traits

    • Taxonomies of Personality

  • Eysenck’s Hierarchical Model of Personality
  • Cattell’s Taxonomy: The 16 Personality Factor System
  • Circumplex Taxonomies of Personality
  • Five-Factor Model

    • SUMMARY AND EVALUATION






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