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| the research strategy of focusing on one particular trait of interest and learning as much as possible about its behavioral correlates, developmental antecedents and life consequences |
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| a measure of how much a person pays attention to cues |
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| research strategy that focuses on a particular behavior and investigates its correlations with as many different personality traits as possible. |
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A set of 100 descriptive items that cover the personality domain
(ex: critical, skeptical) |
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leads to a greater chance to identify traits about a person
(however, false identification also goes up) |
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| less likely to have a false positive |
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| denying oneself immediate pleasure for long-term gain |
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| What can the many trait approach help predict? |
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-drug abuse
-depression
-political orientation |
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| The Essential Trait Approach |
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| research strategy that attempts to narrow the list of thousands of trait terms into a shorter list of the ones that really matter |
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| the idea that if people find something is important, they will develop a word for it. |
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Unrelated
(scoring high on one trait does not effect the other.) |
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social, outgoing
adv: higher status, more 'popular', more positive emotions
disadv: mate poaching
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| better performing at jobs, thinking ahead, following through |
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emotional instability
-ineffective problem solving, strong negative reactions to stress
-negatively correlated with happiness, well-being and physical health
-general tendency toward psychopathology
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Conformity, Compliance, Likeability
-cooperative
-less vulnerability
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Intelect
-most controversial trait
-value of culteral matters
-creativity and perceptivness
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-not orthogonal
-too broad for conceptual understanding |
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| based on doubt about whether it is valid to compare people on the same trait dimensions |
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| Notable Aspect of The Trait Approach |
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| focuses exclusively on individual differences |
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