PERSONALITY TRAITS :)

- traits are relatively stable and consistent personal characteristics

- traits personality theories suggest that a person can be described on the basis of some of the personality traits.

-Allport identify some 4500 traits
- Cattel used fctor analysis to identify 30-35 basic traits
- Eyesenck argued there are 3 dinstinct traits in personality

= extraversion
= neuroticism
= psychotocism

HISTORY OF TRAITS THEORY

- the issue of personality types, including temperament, is as old as psychology.

- the ancient Greek - TWO DIMENSIONS of temperament, leading to four types based on what kind of fluids :

+ the sanguine type
+ choleric type
+ phlegmatic type
+ melancholic type