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What is personality? The patterns of feelings, thoughts and behaviors that set people apart from one another. The patterns of feelings, thoughts and behaviors that set people apart from one another. Approaches to understanding personality: Approaches to understanding personality: Trait Approach Trait Approach Psychodynamic Approach Psychodynamic Approach Learning/Behavioral Approach Learning/Behavioral Approach Humanistic Approach Humanistic Approach

Trait Approach Categorizing and describing individual differences in personality. Categorizing and describing individual differences in personality. History of the Trait Approach Hippocrates (Ancient Greeks) Traits were contained in fluids or humors of the body Gordon Allport (1930s) Traits were inherited and fixed in the nervous system Hans Eysenck (Mid 1900s) Identified two personality traits: introversion and extroversion

HOMEWORK: Find the four basic “humors” of Hippocrates and what they stand for.... QUIZ ON THIS TOMORROW!

What is a TRAIT? An aspect of personality that is considered to be reasonably stable. An aspect of personality that is considered to be reasonably stable. Outgoing Outgoing Shyness Shyness Honesty Honesty Friendliness Friendliness (over 18,000 human traits in the dictionary describing us) AS A RESULT- Five Factor Model (over 18,000 human traits in the dictionary describing us) AS A RESULT- Five Factor Model

The FIVE-FACTOR Model FNameTraits IExtroversion Active and self- expressive; Interact with others, outgoing IIAgreeableness Good-natured, gentle, cooperative, and secure IIIConscientiousness Responsible, persevering, tidy, scrupulous IV Emotional Stability- Instability Coping ability with nervousness, moodiness & sensitivity (neurotic) V Openness to Experience Traits of imagination, curiosity, desires for more perspective

Assignment: What are your traits? Identify 10 traits of your own personality. Identify 10 traits of your own personality. Represent those traits with a picture, a phrase or some other clipping. Represent those traits with a picture, a phrase or some other clipping. On the back of the clipping, write what trait it represents in you and why you chose it. On the back of the clipping, write what trait it represents in you and why you chose it. Hang traits on your mobile with string/yarn Hang traits on your mobile with string/yarn Share day is Friday!! Share day is Friday!!

Take the Big Five Test Yourself! Go to Go to Take the survey Take the survey After you get your results, go to log in as a user, and then respond to the discussion question and one other person as the question asks you! After you get your results, go to log in as a user, and then respond to the discussion question and one other person as the question asks you!

Evaluation of the Trait Approach What it does…What is does not… Describes personality Does not explain where personality comes from Biological factors have not successfully been approved for tracing trait origin

The Barnum Effect Tendency to accept general statements as accurate descriptions of ones-self. Tendency to accept general statements as accurate descriptions of ones-self. Broad or global descriptions fit every man/women Broad or global descriptions fit every man/women Found in horoscopes Found in horoscopes Statements based on deductions rather than specific theory Statements based on deductions rather than specific theory