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Complete a Big Five Trait personality inventory to examine your trait profile. There are a variety of trait personality tests available online; I recommend either the “Big Five Personality Inventory" (http://users.wmin.ac.uk/~buchant/wwwffi/) or “All About You" (http://www.outofservice.com/bigfive/). After completing the on-line personality test, reflect on your scores for the “Big Five” traits. Based on your reflections, do you think five traits are adequate to provide a description of an individual's personality?
As a follow-up, I would like you to complete a "mini-study" to address this question. Solicit the help of three or four close acquaintances of a “target person” (all acquaintances must know the same target person). Ask these acquaintances to describe the “target person” in terms of general characteristics or traits. These descriptive terms should not be in terms of behavior (e.g., “She likes to pick fights”), but in terms of personal dispositions (e.g., “She’s aggressive”). Neither should the descriptions be physical attributes (e.g., “He has an athletic build”) nor should they be in terms of the acquaintance’s relationship with the “target person” (e.g., “She makes me laugh” or “I like him”) Acquaintances should not be told how many traits they should name. They should simply list descriptive adjectives that they feel others would also list. After you have gathered this data, group synonyms and then count the average number of central traits that others agree the “target person” possesses. You may be interested to find whether the average number of outstanding personal dispositions is approximately the same as the number of central dispositions hypothesized by Allport, namely five to eight. In other words, can individuals be consistently described by five to eight central dispositions?
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Week 6 : Dispositional Theory: Cattell, Eysenck and Allport - Mastery 6
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Question 1. 1. Which of these is most likely based on perseverative functionally autonomous motives? (Points : 1)
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1. regression to infantile behaviors
2. contraction of the pupil of the eye
3. addiction to nicotine in cigarettes
4. watching a favorite TV program
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Question 2. 2. Those aspects of a person regarded as important to a sense of self-identity and self-enhancement are what Allport called (Points : 1)
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1. cardinal traits.
2. the ego.
3. the self.
4. the self-concept.
5. the proprium.
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Question 3. 3. The Religious Orientation Scale (ROS) assumes both ______ and ______ orientation toward religion. (Points : 1)
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1. a theistic; an atheistic
2. a group; an individual
3. a historical; a function
4. a trait; a personal disposition
5. an intrinsic; an extrinsic
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Question 4. 4. The technique that Baldwin developed to analyze the structure of Jenny's personality from her letters was called (Points : 1)
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1. factor analysis.
2. the nomothetic procedure.
3. content analysis.
4. personal structure analysis.
5. the analysis of functional autonomy.
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Question 5. 5. Examples of Allport's completely morphogenic methods include all the following EXCEPT (Points : 1)
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1. autobiographies.
2. self-anchoring scales.
3. body gestures.
4. voice patterns.
5. self-rating scales.
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Question 6. 6. Like Eysenck's model, the Five-Factor model rates _______ as a trait that reflects an affectionate, active, fun-loving and passionate person. (Points : 1)
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1. neuroticism
2. extraversion
3. conscientiousness
4. openness to experience
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Question 7. 7. The Five-Factor Model (FFM) of personality shares origins with Eysenck's model in that (Points : 1)
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1. both emphasize individual case histories as data points.
2. both rely on taxonomies to generate research.
3. Eysenck relied heavily on the research of the FFM.
4. None of these is correct.
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Question 8. 8. The Five-Factor Theory rests on a single causal influence on personality traits. What is it? (Points : 1)
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1. culture
2. biology
3. early childhood
4. unconscious dynamism
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Question 9. 9. Eysenck claimed that extraverted types are characterized by all the following traits EXCEPT (Points : 1)
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1. sociable.
2. impulsive.
3. lively.
4. playful.
5. thoughtful.
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Question 10. 10. According to Eysenck, high P scorers are (Points : 1)
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1. punctual and precise.
2. caring and cooperative.
3. social and agreeable.
4. impulsive and hostile.
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