Exam 11: Factor Analytic, Genetic and Evolutionary Theories Raymond Cattell, The Big Five Personality Traits, Genetic and Evolutionary Developments

Which of the following statements regarding genes,the brain,and personality is false?

According to Cattell,the study of source traits is important because

Costa and McCrae are factor analytic personality theorists who

The application of the Five-Factor Model to psychopathology (for example,personality disorders) suggests that people with disorders possess the same personality "ingredients" as those without disorders.If our society adopted this viewpoint (that abnormal people are quantitatively,not qualitatively,different from normal people),what would be the implications? In your opinion,why has our society adopted the qualitative viewpoint in the first place?

Dr.Wilson is a psychologist who asserts that psychologists would benefit by adapting the Five-Factor Model in their understanding of certain mental disorders.Which of the following is most likely to be true with regard to Dr.Wilson's beliefs?

Describe the differences among the Big Five,the Five-Factor Model,and the Five-Factor Theory.

A genotype

Dr.Henderson is a psychologist conducting empirical research on personality variables.She asks participants to complete questionnaires that measure 100 different personality characteristics.Then she uses a statistical procedure in which she examines correlations among the 100 personality variables,with the assumption that if some of them cluster together,they may tap into the same underlying characteristic.The statistical procedure Dr.Henderson uses is known as

Discuss how evolutionary psychology influences personality theory.

What distinguishes source traits from surface traits?

As part of her graduate dissertation,Nadine gives a group of personality tests to fourth-graders.Included among these tests is a measure of popularity that she herself authored.Factor analysis of her data yields two factors: extraversion and creativity.Nadine then finds that her popularity measure had a high positive correlation with the extraversion factor and a high negative correlation with the creativity factor.What do the results mean?

What is the significance of the finding that some traits are genetically based?

Define behavioral genetics and distinguish between genotype and phenotype.

Discuss applications of the Big Five.

Discuss how the Big Five originated from the study of language and from the study of personality questionnaires and ratings.

The more ________ an attribute is,the better we are able to use it to predict a person's behavior in a given situation.

McCrae and Costa (1997) compared data from studies that used six translations of the NEO-PI-R.What was one of the translated languages?

To what extent do you believe that the Big Five personality dimensions,as identified by Costa and McCrae,fully capture the range of personality traits? In your opinion,does the Five-Factor Model fail to account for important aspects of personality?

In the nature versus nurture controversy,most contemporary theorists believe that

To what extent do you agree that the idea of survival of the fittest has applied to psychological as well as physical variables in the evolution of humans?