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Slides
- Content Areas and Core Themes
- What is a Trait?
- Describing Traits With Language
- Using Factor Analysis to Describe Personality Differences
- Measuring Traits
- Predicting Outcomes from Trait Scores
- Stability and Change
Key Terms
- Person AND Situation
- Stability AND Change
- Degrees, NOT Types
- Limited Self-Knowledge
- ABCs of psychology
- Personality Psychology
- trait
- state
- lexical hypothesis
- correlation
- factor
- factor analysis
- facet
- Big Five
- openness
- conscientiousness
- extraversion
- agreeableness
- neuroticism
- construct
- operational definition
- social desirability
- score reliability
- score validity
- self-report measure
- informant report measure
- behavioral measure
- digital record measure
- prediction
- causation
- rank-order stability
- mean-level change
- maturity principle
- gene-environment correlation
- heritability
- nonshared environment
- shared environment
- twin study
Flashcards
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Last updated: August 26, 2026 at 5:30 PM