Implicit Personality Theories Overview

Theories about the personalities of others, made based on personal intuition.

To help understand both others and ourselves.

Common or everyday assumptions about a subject.

<p>Definitions of personality that base themselves on observed levels of physical appearance and interactions with others.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>One of the first to focus on qualities and characteristics, considered how these individualistic characteristics are consistently changing and adapting.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To focus on the individual by taking into account all of their uniqueness and develop an in-depth understanding of them.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Little generalization can be made.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To focus on similarities between groups of individuals, so that you can identify basic structures of personality.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Can lead to superficial understanding.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Openness to new experiences, Conscientiousness, Extroversion, Agreeableness, Neuroticism.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>That personality is very dependent on the individual's situation.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>That personality dictates how we behave no matter the context.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The clinical approach - developed from studies of the mentally ill.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Developed treatment based on magnets and was influential in the field of hypnosis.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Individual Differences emphasis on personality.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Known as the father of Individual Differences as a topic.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Description, Explanation, Empirical Validity, Testable concepts, Comprehensiveness, Parsimony, Heuristic Value, Applied Value.</p> Signup and view all the answers