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| In trait factor theory, the five major traits are emotionality, activity, and sociability factors. |
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| Facets are the more specific traits that make up each of the broad Big Five factors. For example, facets of extraversion are activity level, assertiveness, excitement seeking, positive emotions, sregariousness, and warmth |
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| An emerging consensus among trait theorists suggesting five basic factors to human personality: Neuroticism, extraversion, openness, agreeableness, and conscientiousness. |
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| Fundamental lexical hypothesis |
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| the hypothesis that over time the most important individual differece in human interaction have been encoded as single terms into language |
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| A personality questionaire designed to measure people's standing on each of the factors of the five-factor model, as well as on facets of each factor |
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| The acronym for the five basic traits |
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| Person-situation controversy |
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| A controversery between psychologists who emphasize the importance of personal (internal) variables in determining behavior and those who emphasize the importance of situation (external) influences |
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