Psychology
110
Neil Lutsky, Carleton College:
Class Outline:
Personality in the
Measurement Tradition
- Introduction
to trait psychology and personality assessment.
- Basic questions.
- What
is psychology? The clinical vs. measurement
approaches.
- Features
of the measurement approach.
- Projective
vs. self-report methods.
- Using
self-reports to measure traits of personality.
- Empirical
evidence: How do we know if the measure is sound?
- Early
models of individual differences.
- The
Hippocrates temperament model.
- Phrenology.
- Taxonomic
analyses of personality.
- Eysenck's
model of personality.
- Introversion-extraversion.
- Neuroticism.
- Psychoticism.
- The
Five Factor Model (FFM)
- Extraversion-introversion.
- Neuroticism.
- Conscientiousness.
- Agreeableness.
- Open-mindedness.
- Why the FFM
is basic.
- Interpersonal
reality.
- Pervasiveness.
- Universality.
- Biological
bases.
- Empirical
shadows of personality.
- The reliability
of personality measurements.
- Personality
in thin slices of behavior: Borkenau & Liebler research.
- Personality
and leadership, relationships, and eating disorders.
- Personality
and subjective well-being (happiness).
- Three
fundamental questions about personality traits.
- The
sources of variability: The behavioral genetics of traits
(Turkheimer).
- The
longitudinal stability of traits (Costa & McCrae).
- Mischel's
empirical critique: Cross-situational
consistency.