Elaborate on the Five-Factor Model of trait theory.
What will be an ideal response?
A. The Five-Factor Model is a result of an evolution of the factor analysis method that began with Allport and was continued by Cattell in the 1940s. Costa and McCrae continued their work of factor analyzing major personality inventories until they reached a core set of five personality traits.
B. Costa and McCrae agreed with Eysenck that personality traits are bipolar and follow a bell-shaped distribution. Most people score near the middle of each trait, with only a few people scoring at the extremes. The two strongest and most ubiquitous traits are neuroticism (N) and extraversion (E). Neuroticism reflects relative levels of emotions, and extraversion refers to relative levels of social gregariousness.
C. The third factor, openness to experience, distinguishes people who prefer variety and diverse experiences from those who gain comfort in familiar, conventional, and traditional things.
D. The Agreeableness Scale distinguishes trusting, generous, and good-natured people from those who are more suspicious, unfriendly, and critical of other people.
E. The fifth factor-conscientiousness-describes people who are ordered, controlled, ambitious, and self-disciplined. People who score low on this factor tend to be disorganized, negligent, lazy, and aimless, and they often lack perseverance.
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a. delegate responsibility. b. accept anything less than perfection. c. say no. d. set or stick to priorities.
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a. Maciel, an Australian b. Belinda, a Columbian c. Audrey, an Asian d. Doreen, a Bolivian
Developing expertise in an area allows for fast, fairly effortless thinking based on experience with similar problems. This type of thinking is known as
a. automatic processing. b. algorithmic problem-solving. c. mnemonic strategies. d. trial-and-error strategies.
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A) female rats do not have a menstrual cycle. B) female rats are interested in sex only during ovulation. C) human females are not interested in sex during ovulation. D) human females are interested in sex only during ovulation.