ougDespite the criticisms and non–replication of factors within Cattell’s approach‚ he and his colleagues were responsible for the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (16PF: Cattell et al.‚ 1973) and Cattell did pave the way for the development of the FFM. The next major player in the development of trait theory was Fiske (1949). Fiske’s factor analysis of peer‚ self and psychologist ratings of 128 clinical trainees ratedscales ‚ Norman (1963)‚ working with male university students‚ found through
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Running Head: CATTELL James McKeen Cattell Vanessa Laurent ID Number- 70407246 Southern Connecticut State University April 22‚ 2010 James McKeen Cattell was a dominant structure in introducing experimental psychology in the United States. His greatest contribution to psychology is his objective methods of study and the thought that psychology should be applied to practical aspects of life. He has been credited as developing an approach to psychological research that continues to
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James McKeen Cattell James McKeen Cattell was born on May 25‚ 1860‚ in Easton‚ Pennsylvania‚ where his father was soon to be president of Lafayette College from 1863 to 1883. He received his bachelor’s degree from Lafayette in 1880‚ spent two years traveling and studying in Germany‚ and returned to the United States in 1882 as a graduate fellow in philosophy at The Johns Hopkins University. Returning to Leipzig in the fall of 1883‚ he earned his doctoral degree in experimental psychology under Wilhelm
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of the 16PF Questionnaire Liberty University Abstract The Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (16PF)‚ Fifth Edition was released in 1993 and is designed to measure normal personality traits in adults ages 16 and older. Dr. Raymond Cattell published the first edition of the 16PF in 1949 after extensive research using factor analysis techniques. The 16PF measures 16 primary personality factors and five global personality factors. Available in a wide variety of languages worldwide‚ the
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Ψ Raymond Cattell BIOGRAPHY OF RAYMOND CATTELL Cattell was born in England in 1905 to a family of engineers. Cattell was a bright student‚ graduating with his doctorate in psychology in 1929 from the university of London at 23. A bleak job market forced Cattell to take a clinical position doing school psychology for 5 years. This helped him with his future career in personality research. In 1937‚ Cattell was invited to the states by E.L Thorndike in New York. Cattell stayed in the US after
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results of years of factor-analysis research focused on discovering basic structural elements of personality (Cattell‚ R. B.‚ 1957‚ 1973). In addition‚ to discovering the sixteen normal-range personality traits for which the instrument is named‚ the researchers identified the five broad dimensions---variant of the “Big Five” factors (Cattell‚ R.B.‚ 1957‚ 1970). From the beginning‚ Cattell proposed a multi-level hierarchical structure of personality: the second-order global measures describe personality
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EBSCOhost 12/10/11 6:12 PM Record: 1 Title: Authors: Other Publishers: A contrarian view of the five-factor approach to personality description. Block‚ Jack‚ U California‚ Dept of Psychology‚ Berkeley‚ US US: Psychological Review Company US: The Macmillan Company US: The Review Publishing Company PsycARTICLES Database: A Contrarian View of the Five-Factor Approach to Personality Description By: Jack Block Department of Psychology‚ University of California‚ Berkeley Acknowledgement: This
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cardinal traits‚ defining characteristics of their personalities. For trait theorists‚ traits like aggression are part of the dynamic organization of personality‚ parts of personality that incline an individual to behave in certain ways. Raymond Cattell (1966)‚ using factor analysis to extract the common human traits‚ isolated those source traits that‚ if manifest to an extreme degree‚ seem to characterize a killer. Individuals low on factor A are aloof and critical‚ people low on factor C are
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the traits were developed. Theory “Source traits” are what Raymond Cattell called the sixteen factors that underlie ones personality (Pervin‚ John‚ & Cervone‚ 2005). These factors include; warmth‚ reasoning‚ emotional stability‚ dominance‚ liveliness‚ rule-consciousness‚ social boldness‚ sensitivity‚ vigilance‚ abstractedness‚ privateness‚ apprehension‚ openness to change‚ self reliance‚ perfectionism‚ and tension. Cattell suggests that each behavior is influenced by specific situations (Meit
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The study of personality is based on the essential insight that all people are similar in some ways‚ yet different in others.[7] There have been many different definitions of personality proposed. However‚ many contemporary psychologists agree on the following definition: Personality is that pattern of characteristic thoughts‚ feelings‚ and behaviors that distinguishes one person from another and that persists over time and situations. [7] Trait theories[edit] According to the Diagnostic and Statistical
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