Psy 228 Chapter 8 questions with verified answers
16 personality factor Questionnaire Ans✓✓✓ Objective personality test created
by Cattell that provides scores on the 16 traits he identified.
Agreeableness Ans✓✓✓ High: Friendly, cooperative, trusting.
Low: Argumentative, quarrelsome, unkind.
Cardinal disposition Ans✓✓✓ A trait so strong within a specific person that it:
--Exerts an overwhelming influence on his/her behavior, ----Explains much of that
person's behavior.
Central dispositions Ans✓✓✓ A set of traits that:
--Explain much of a person's behavior,
--Succinctly describes their core features,
--Around which the personality is organized
Common traits Ans✓✓✓ Traits that usefully describe the behavior of many
people with a given population.
Conscientiousness Ans✓✓✓ High: Cautious, dependable, persevering, organized,
responsible.
Low: Careless, disorderly, undependable.
Extraversion Ans✓✓✓ High: Energetic, enthusiastic, dominant, sociable,
talkative.
Low (Introverted): shy, retiring, submissive, quiet.
16 personality factor Questionnaire Ans✓✓✓ Objective personality test created
by Cattell that provides scores on the 16 traits he identified.
Agreeableness Ans✓✓✓ High: Friendly, cooperative, trusting.
Low: Argumentative, quarrelsome, unkind.
Cardinal disposition Ans✓✓✓ A trait so strong within a specific person that it:
--Exerts an overwhelming influence on his/her behavior, ----Explains much of that
person's behavior.
Central dispositions Ans✓✓✓ A set of traits that:
--Explain much of a person's behavior,
--Succinctly describes their core features,
--Around which the personality is organized
Common traits Ans✓✓✓ Traits that usefully describe the behavior of many
people with a given population.
Conscientiousness Ans✓✓✓ High: Cautious, dependable, persevering, organized,
responsible.
Low: Careless, disorderly, undependable.
Extraversion Ans✓✓✓ High: Energetic, enthusiastic, dominant, sociable,
talkative.
Low (Introverted): shy, retiring, submissive, quiet.
