2017 Personality 14: Introduction to Traits/Psychometrics/The Big 5

In this lecture, I begin discussing the development of modern trait theory. Psychologists, expert in measurement and statistics, discovered extraversion, neuroticism, agreeableness, conscientiousness and openness to experience, and began the process of delineating their social significance and biological underpinnings.

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[jan]

at first i thought "how lucky do you have to be to sit in the classroom of dr. peterson?" then i thought "how lucky am i to be able to watch his lessons from home?"

[AntisepticHandwash]

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[matrichard]

This index is for my own reference, but hope it helps for you too!
10:19 What is personality? A trait is an element of personality (describable stable elements that characterize you)
16:30 What are these 5 dimensions, exactly? Think of them as a frame of reference...
17:58 [GOLD] Your capacity to expand your ability past the initial constraints of your biological temperament is the development of character or wisdom.
20:43 Traits are patterns of behaviour...
22:37 What people are is a melody of traits
23:16 It's useful to know your traits so that you can orient your life, it's difficult to work contrary to your traits
24:00 [GOLD] Really good summary of the traits in relation to "partners"
32:36 Linguistic Hypothesis
41:35 Openness, entrepreneurship, creativity
44:00 Negative correlation between creativity and grad school performance
46:35 You need to have some creative wingnuts in your organization to come up with some completely absurd ideas that might just on the off-chance be true.

[roroguapo]

The only professor that can just post a raw video of his regular class lectures on YouTube and get millions of views.

[henrymick]

*O*penness to experience, *C*onscientiousness, *E*xtraversion, *A*greeableness, *N*euroticism - OCEAN - The ocean of traits

[bloatedtreeful]

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[vingag]

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[thereisnosanctuary]

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[breevestal]

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[00:25:00] - agreeable/disagreeable
[00:27:00] - Industrious
[00:40:00] - Conscientiousness

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Love these videos!

The formula for balance in a relationship, as I've found it, are kindness and respect. My wife and I are about 85% opposites, we've been married for 21 years and have 4 teenagers/young adults (16-20) - and our children have never witnessed us fighting. In fact, we don't fight, even though we disagree and have different worldviews. She's a Christian, school teacher, even-tempered and has never tried illicit substances; I'm a biker, pagan, excitable, and smoked my way through school. We present our positions, listen to each other, and are both willing to compromise. We respect each other's views because they are formed from those differing worldviews, and although we may not agree we still show kindness to each other, which makes compromise much easier.

[yaboighandiyo]

To be honest, most of his lessons cover what most intro to Psychology classes cover. It's not new knowledge, but what is truly phenomenal is his knack at sharing these lessons in a coherent, comprehensive way. In fact, most of his examples go above and beyond and truly take some of these concepts to the next level to truly grasp the concepts firmly. He's certainly a well read individual who clearly shows his passion and zeal for his work through his speech. Well done.

[jpstang]

As a statistics undergraduate, this lecture is particularly interesting. I've learned technicalities of doing statistics correctly. Yet to find interresting problems to apply my skills to is not straightforward. This lecture is showing me the use in psychology. Thank you!

[Sunshine-ykeg]

17:45 "Your capacity to expand your abilities past the initial constraints of your biological temperament is something like the development of character and wisdom. It expands the domain of your competence. Naturally, when you are born, you are set at a certain place with some range around it, and as you grow and mature, if you choose to develop your ability, you can expand that range, even though the place at which you are set doesn't move that much" (so basically everyone has a natural mode at which they operate and a certain area within which they can expand and grow. You can cover a wider range and move around between the 2 ends, but your natural mode, or your comfort zone, will most likely, more or less stay the same.)

19:59 your underlying fundamental psychological traits determine or influence your value structures and tend to set your goals

20:43 traits are patterns of behaviour. You can extract out personality by looking at people's microactions as well

21:40 how people choose to define their biography and characterize their lives shows what they value and thus, what traits they have. Because the higher you are (score) on a given trait, the higher you value the opportunities associated with it

23:02 your personality is the melody of traits, and how they manifest themselves. Its useful to understand what traits constitute your personality so that
# you can find out and identify your strengths and weakness,
# and how you should orient your life,
# choose environments and jobs that align with your traits,
# choose a partner who would gel well with your disposition so that the relationship lasts and you both don't drive each other mad 30:10

26:41 who is a conscientious person?? Industrious and orderly. What makes a person industrious?...they find it unpleasant and unsettling to not be doing something. It's not that being Industrious makes them happy...its just that they can't stand sitting idle doing nothing. Ethical obligation to share the product of your labour with other humans. They feel bad if they aren't being busily productive doing something all the time. They are gonna work like mad. Being with unconscientious people might make them relax a bit and loosen up, but mostly they'd just get mad and annoyed by the messiness and the laid back nature of the unconscientious people, and would constantly be picking up after them

33:39 linguistic hypothesis. It's possible to extract out what constitutes personality by looking at the linguistic representation of descriptors insofar as they are encapsulated in language. (So basically, as long as there is a word describing the trait, you can use the adjective/descriptor to define someone's personality) and the big5 model assumes that all the traits have been described by the language, (so basically, all traits that exist have an adjective that describes them) and so, they assume that model is pretty much comprehensive and covers all areas of personality and that is sort of a limiting assumption but it atleast gives us somewhere to start so ok

35:10 how do you tell if a psychological concept is real?? What is exist?? *Construct validation.* How is an abstract construct similar and different to other constructs??

37:29 self serving bias

40:16 why people enter political discussion 》1) to impose their temperament and views on the world 2) to engage in dialogue with people who are quite different than they are

40:51 army men temperament 》really high conscientiousness (since the environment requires it) but they also need to use their own minds and make tough calls on their own as well but that isn't their forte so they will have a hard time doing it
Entrepreneurs have the opposite profile 》high openness, low conscientiousness

43:06 correlation between grades and creativity is zero (maybe even negative) since creative people step outside of the evaluation measure, because the creative person is gonna do things in way that is so different and unique that it will not show up on the evaluation measure (noone will have any idea as to what to do with their work as it doesn't meet the "norm"

44:55 science tends to progress incrementally, one tiny microstep at a time, not in great leaps (tho, every now and then someone like Einstein shows up and blows the structure so that it advances drastically)

Most of the time, You are in a discipline, you understand the discipline and then you are able to know the next micro question that needs to be answered. Science (or anything that has a structure like that, of rules that need to be applies, eg: law, entrepreneurship) allows the normal, non-Einstein people to make a change, real advancements in the generation of knowledge, by making tiny incremental changes, one step at a time. It doesn't matter if a 1000 people are doing it.
*so, conscientiousness is the best predictor for succeeding in most fields*

46:06 but you need some creative wingnuts so as to ensure that some crazy psychopath doesn't steer all the conscientious people busily working hard, sticking to the same track, in the wrong direction.

46:49 Creativity is a high risk high return game. But the probability of your highly valuable flopping is higher

If you wanna engage in a creative pursuit, you need a combination of creativity, a network of people who have the skills that you don't, a knowledge of the market and how it works (I guess that was the point of the kdrama Start Up).

[winstonthomas]

Great lecture! I am highly creative, but it took me maaany years to get disciplined and structured enough to make a good living from the things I have created. I had to balance my brain. That's not easy.

[barbarawalker]

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