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Social psychologists explain behavior by the situation, whereas: personality psychologists attribute behavior to enduring . |
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The five major dimensions of personality are extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, , and openness to experience. |
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"Big Five" traits of personality and their widespread adoption and acceptance owes much to the research and theory of Robert McCrae and . |
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Presently, most researchers who study personality traits agree that dominant traits continue to emerge from factor analytic techniques. |
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Hans J. Eysenck insisted that only major factors can be discerned by a factor analytic approach. |
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Allports major contribution to trait theory may have been his identification of nearly trait names in an unabridged English language dictionary. |
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The Five-Factor Theory (often called ) includes neuroticism and extraversion; but it adds openness to experience, agreeableness, and conscientiousness. |
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Cattell and McCrae and Costa both used an of gathering data; that is, they began with no preconceived bias concerning the number or name of traits or types. |
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The largest and most frequently studied of the normal traits are the personality factors found on Cattell’s (1949) Personality Factors Questionnaire ( PF Scale). |
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Factor analysis is largely the collection and quantifying of observations, and then demonstrating . |
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