Exam 3: Personality Structure: Classifying Traits

Suppose that a factor analysis of food preferences revealed four factors,representing preferences for (1)meats,(2)fruits and vegetables,(3)sugary foods,and (4)fried foods.Assuming that these results were accurate,which of the following would be an accurate interpretation?

The following are five of the "facet" scales of the NEO Personality Inventory-Revised: Achievement,Activity,Aesthetics,Altruism,Anxiety.Which of the following is the ordering of the Big Five (or Five-Factor Model)factors that matches the ordering of the above list of facets?

Which of the following best summarizes the evidence about the proposal of personality "types",where each type is characterized by particular combinations of levels of personality traits.

The following are six of the "facet" scales of the HEXACO Personality Inventory-Revised: Creativity,Perfectionism,Greed-avoidance,Flexibility,Dependence,Social boldness.Which of the following is the ordering of the HEXACO factors that matches the ordering of the above list of facets?

In his early lexical studies of personality structure,Cattell (1947)used only about 35 adjectives,even though there were thousands of personality-descriptive adjectives in the English language.Why did Cattell use such a small set of adjectives?

Suppose that a researcher wants to measure all of the major aspects of personality.The researcher proceeds by using his or her own judgment to choose a large set of traits that seem diverse,interesting,and important.Which of the following would be a likely shortcoming of this approach? 1)Despite being a large set of traits,it might completely miss some important aspects of personality 2)Some of the traits within this set might be rather similar to each other,and therefore somewhat redundant 3)Other researchers might measure different sets of traits,making it difficult to communicate,compare,or combine results.

Lexical studies of personality structure in many languages have found a similar set of six major dimensions of personality.What does this mean?

Recall that there are some similarities and differences between,on the one hand,the Big Five Agreeableness and Emotional Stability (versus Neuroticism)factors,and on the other hand,the cross-language (HEXACO)Agreeableness and Emotionality factors.How is the location of personality traits such as "patience" (versus anger)similar or different between the Big Five and HEXACO frameworks?

Why might researchers sometimes want to measure the specific personality traits that make up each of the major dimensions (factors)of personality,instead of just measuring those few broad dimensions?