Learning Objective PGAT_COON_2016_12.3.4 – Describe how the Sixteen Personality
Factor Questionnaire (16 PF) can be used to measure source traits and produce a trait profile
of a person.
o
The sixteen
personality
factors or
16PF
psychometric
test
assesses various
primary
personality
traits in order to provide feedback about an individual's
disposition, traditionally used by psychologists in a clinical or research setting and
more recently by recruitment consultants and prospective employers
Learning Objective PGAT_COON_2016_12.3.5 – Discuss the five-factor model of
personality by identifying the characteristics of people who score high or low on each of the
five dimensions; describe the advantages and disadvantages of being high or low on these
dimensions, including the problem of maladaptive perfectionism; and explain how these Big
Five traits are related to different brain systems and chemicals and how they can be used to
predict future behavior.
o
The
five
-factor model of personality
(FFM) is a set of
five
broad trait dimensions or
domains, often referred to as the “Big
Five
”: Extraversion, Agreeableness,
Conscientiousness, Neuroticism (sometimes named by its polar opposite, Emotional
Stability), and Openness to Experience (sometimes named Intellect)
Gateway Question 12.4: How do psychodynamic theories explain personality?Learning Objective PGAT_COON_2016_12.4.1 – Discuss the psychodynamic theories, including their emphasis on unconscious forces and conflicts within the personality and what they share in common with the trait theories; and describe the best-known psychodynamic approach, which grew out of the work of Sigmund Freud and is called psychoanalytic theory.
(Add 1,000 or more words beyond question word count of 1,820)
Learning Objective PGAT_COON_2016_12.4.2 – Discuss, in detail, Freud’s three mental structures of personality: the id, ego, and superego; explain the pleasure and reality principles; list and describe the two parts of the superego; and identify examples of the rolesplayed by each structure in guiding behavior.
