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Raymond Cattell
May Laird, Ann Scott, Karen Smith, Jackie Lupones, Joanie Walker
Theories of Personality
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Overview of Cattells’ life
Raymond Bernard Cattell was born in Staffordshire, England on March 20, 1905. ... Cattell had an enjoyable and comfortable life at home and school.
When Cattell was nine years old WWI had just started. ... Cattell observed these men and became very serious young boy and was aware of “The brevity of life and need to accomplish while one might” (Horn). Cattell also had competition of establishing his own freedom against his older brother who was very domineering. Because of these two situations Cattell wanted to become an excelling student. ... Raymond Cattell was the first to go to college in the family. Raymond said “ Although the intellectual stimulus comes from my fathers end of the table who loved history, literature, and applied science to his work, I discovered when I became a psychologist I tested my parents intelligence that his IQ was 120 and his mothers was 150” (Horn).
Cattell was interested in chemistry which he applied his scientific principles in exploring human behavior. In 1924 Cattell pursued psychology for many reasons. Four reasons that made Cattell enter the Psychology field. ... Young thinkers influencing Cattell of the study of human behaviors. ... Cattell was influenced by the periodic table with the definitions and order of the elements. ...
There were few professions in the psychology field but Cattell was lucky to work with Charles Spearman where he learned Spearmans factor analysis and a mathematical procedure to study intelligence that Cattell would apply to personality research (Horn). ... Cattell created 3 medias of behavioral observations, which are the L, Q, and T (Cloninger 227). ... Cattell accepted a position in Leicester, England where he researched his overall goal to scientifically map out the domains of psychology including personality motivations and abilities.
Cattell became sick with a chronic stomach condition that he attributed to a heavy workload, poor food diet, and poor living conditions. ... Cattell accepted a professionship at Clark University where he worked on culture fair personality tests. ... The citation praised his work for its inclusion of many areas saying that “Cattell stands without peers in his creation of a unified theory of individual differences integrating intellectual, temperamental, and dynamic domains of personality in the context of environmental and heredity influences”. ... Since Cattell, many researchers have conducted many studies to determine whether there are sixteen traits, as Cattell argued (1971) or whether the truth is elsewhere. ... Cattell reduced this list to 35 traits. ...
Strengths of the five-factor model
The recognition is that human behavior is complex and determined by trait show that different uses of traits have been obtained (Cattell, 1971). ... Cattell approached the problem of solving personality “by asking people to indicate the extent to which they and others could be described with each of the large number of words” (Personality Psychology Trait, p. ...
Cattell is known for the development of a trait theory that took Allport’s thousands and broke them down into 16 primary traits. Cattell collected from past research 171 trait names and through factor analysis reduced them to the 16 personality traits. ...
Cattell created the 16 PF from a mixture of sources to avoid criticism. ... Cattell used factor analysis to identify groups of items, which were strongly intercorrelated and argue that these groups of items provide definitions of personality traits. ... “Cattell referred to the factors which underlie behavior as source traits. ...
“Cattell is often criticized for having produced an overly simplistic model” (Trait Theory of Personality, p. ... “Takemoto-Chock (1998: as citied by Hergenhan, 1990) states that some of the source traits Cattell has found have not been replicated by other researchers” (ECTP, p. ...
Cattell was one of the most influential personality theorists and still is today. ... “The 16 PF has been applied effectively in variety of settings, including industrial and organizational, clinical and counseling, educational and research” (Cattell, Eber, and Tatsuoka, 1970; Conn and Rieke, 1994). ... (Cattell, Eber, and Tatsuoka, 1970; Conn and Rieke, 1994). ... The Q data for example was measure from various questionnaires Cattell administered.
Approximate Word count = 3831
Approximate Pages = 15.3
(250 words per page double spaced)
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