Psychology: Trait Approaches to Personality

Allport focused on the idiographic approach, emphasizing unique individual traits.

Traits are defined as stable dispositions or tendencies to act consistently across time and situations.

The Lexical Hypothesis suggests that traits can be identified through language.

<p>The three factors are Extraversion-Introversion, Neuroticism-Normality, and Psychoticism.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Factor analysis is used to identify and group related personality traits into broader dimensions.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Five Factor Model outlines five core traits that describe human personality: openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The DSM-5 incorporates a dimensional trait model that categorizes personality disorders based on maladaptive traits.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The trait approach emphasizes the interaction between nature (biological predispositions) and nurture (environmental influences).</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Five Factors are Neuroticism, Extraversion, Openness, Agreeableness, and Conscientiousness.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The NEO-PI-R assessment identifies personality traits through a self-report questionnaire.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>FFT posits that personality traits are not affected by culture but shaped solely by biology.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Significant changes in the Five Factors typically occur around age 30.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Five Factor Model was not replicated among the Tsimane people, who exhibited two main personality dimensions.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Personality disorders are viewed as extreme or maladaptive variations of personality traits.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Traits are characterized as enduring tendencies to think, feel, and behave in consistent ways.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Five Factor Model suggests that traits are highly heritable and relatively untouched by life experiences.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Enduring patterns of behavior, culturally deviant, pervasive and inflexible, and lead to distress or social impairment.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Cluster A (odd/eccentric), Cluster B (dramatic/emotional/erratic), and Cluster C (anxious/fearful).</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Extensive co-occurrence of personality disorders leading to poor inter-rater reliability.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The AMPD is a dimensional approach that evaluates personality disorders based on impairments in personality functioning and pathological personality traits.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Negative affectivity, detachment, psychoticism, antagonism, and disinhibition.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It allows for personalized treatment goals based on specific traits such as emotional stability or cognitive goals.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>There is extreme heterogeneity with up to 256 different ways to diagnose it.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>'PD NOS' stands for 'Personality Disorder Not Otherwise Specified' and is the most common diagnosis.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Personality disorders represent maladaptive variants of personality traits that merge into normality.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The FFM provides a validated framework for evaluating personality traits that relate to personality disorders.</p> Signup and view all the answers