PERSONALITY
TRAIT THEORIES
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Question
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people exhibit consistent psychological traits such as extroversion or deceitfulness
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people display their psychological traits through their physical ones
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Peoples traits are dependant on their environment and what they learn from the world
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nature is more important than nurture
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Detailed explanation-1: -Cattell added statistical techniques to the verbal trait descriptions. This resulted in 16 basic traits. Hans Eysenck started with traits for extraversion and neuroticism, later adding psychoticism.
Detailed explanation-2: -Eysenck’s theory argues strongly that biological predispositions towards certain personality traits combined with conditioning and socialization during childhood in order to create our personality. This interactionist approach may, therefore, be much more valid than either a biological or environmental theory alone.
Detailed explanation-3: -According to Allport, an individual’s personality is influenced by their childhood experiences, present environment, and the interaction between the two concepts; this was a groundbreaking hypothesis.
Detailed explanation-4: -Within the personality field, Eysenck’s influential Big Three model defines three core personality traits: extraversion, neuroticism, and psychoticism.