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AP Psychology 3.4 Personality: Cattell supported how many personality traits?

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Here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by Raymond Cattell

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this guy right here but if you change the pronunciation of his last name just

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a little bit then he looks like this oops here's our question Cattell [Raymond trampled by lots of cows]

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supported how many personality traits and here are potential answers numbers

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let's run through the numbers and see which one checks out so how about A)

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three. yeah, not quite but it does fit one of the most popular personality models

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the Eysenck personality questionnaire developed by husband-and-wife [An eye and a sink together]

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psychologists duo Hans and Sybil Eysenck the theory is based primarily on

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genetics and asserts that personality can be broken down into three dimensions [Hans and Sybil hugging]

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of temperament extraversion introversion neuroticism stability and psychoticism

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socialization and that's what you get when a couple makes a personality model [A man walks into a room with a woman and woman falls over]

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together three sets of opposites. Which personality model has five traits well

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cuddles doesn't but the big five personality trait model developed by

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McRae and Costa sure does this one includes extraversion, agreeableness, [McRae and Costa sat on a opera balcony]

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conscientiousness, neuroticism and openness but this isn't the answer

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either as it was developed as a response to what they perceived as the over

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simplification of the Eysenck model and over complexity of the model made by a [McRae and Costa sat below an eye and a sink]

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man by the name of Raymond Cattell and that model was his famous sixteen

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personality factor model, Cattell's model used his sixteen personality factor

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questionnaire which was a self-reporting personality test used to assess mental [Girl at a psychatric help stand and boy approaches]

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health and help diagnose psychiatric disorders as well as it being commonly

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used by employers to select potential candidates for jobs right and his [Man interviewing for a job with employer]

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sixteen personality factors are warm, reasoning, emotional stability, dominance,

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liveliness, rural conscious, social boldness, sensitivity, vigilance

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abstracted-ness privateness apprehension openness to change self-reliance

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perfectionism and tension.. jeez Cattell over [Cattell stood by his 16 factor questionnaire]

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compensating much? so no need to look any further D is our answer yeah so we

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didn't tackle all of the answers we figured we'd leave the over compensating [Football player tackling the letters A, D and B]

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to our buddy Cattell but maybe somebody should help him out that looks

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pretty uncomfortable [Cattell underneath lots of cows]

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