Week 15: 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:
*A trait is a dimension of personality used to categorize people according to the degree to which they manifest a particular characteristics.
*The trait approach to personality is built on two important assumptions
*Firstly, trait psychologist assume that personality characteristics are relatively stable over time.
*The Second assumption underlying the trait approach is that personality characteristics are stable across situations.

HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES

Raymond Cattell (1905–1998) Theory

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