Week 17: Personality: Trait Approach to Personality

Personality traits are "enduring patterns of perceiving, relating to, and thinking about the environment and oneself that are exhibited in a wide range of social and personal contexts.
" A trait is what we call a characteristic way in which an individual perceives, feels, believes, or acts.

Trait: An identifying characteristic, habit, or trend. Traits are characteristic ways of behaving, such as extraversion– introversion:
Key Points
Gordon Allport organized traits into a hierarchy of three levels: cardinal traits, central traits, and secondary traits.
Using a statistical process known as factor analysis,

Raymond Cattell generated sixteen dimensions of human personality traits, known as the 16PF.
 

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