Exam 3: Traits and Trait Taxonomies

A Freudian scholar develops personality measures to assess oral, anal, and phallic fixations.The scholar is using the _____ approach to identifying important individual differences.

Proponents of the five factor model have not included more traits

What procedure do researchers use to identify the potential hundreds of acts that belong to a trait category?

If the trait of stinginess is viewed as a purely descriptive summary of behavior, it can be represented best by

Which taxonomy includes a four-level hierarchy of specific acts, habitual acts, traits, and super traits?

Cattell's taxonomy included _____ traits.

Psychologists Simpson and Gangestad developed the concept of sociosexuality based on evolutionary theory.Then they developed the sociosexual orientation inventory.They employed the _____ approach to developing a model of personality.

In Wiggins' circumplex, the traits of dominance and warmth-agreeableness are