theories of trait inference

3. Presented by : Tehreem-Un- Nisa

4. 1-What is trait?
2-Inference
3-Trait inference
4-Theories of trait inference

5. A trait is a characteristics pattern of
behavior or conscious motive which can
be self-assessed or assessed by peers

6. • Imagination
• Skills
• Intelligence level
• hostility

7. •Take what you know or make a guess!
•Draw personal meaning from
text(words) or pictures
•You use clues to come your own
conclusion

8. 1-Where
are
they
2. Who is
the man
standing
in the
front of
the room
3. Is this
company
on the
cutting
edge?
Inferences: Example

9. Inferences: Example
Explanation
The table and topic,
reveal that they
are in a corporate
board room.
Because he is in the front
of the room standing
we would infer that he
is the boss.
Who is the man
We can infer by
his dialogue that
they are behind
the competition
Is this company
on the cutting
edge

11. The author /character implies , but
reader infer when making and educated
guess

13. “You are perceived as possessing the very
traits you describe in yourself and when
someone else describes these traits in
you.’’

17. l

18. Characteristics that are persvasive and dominant in a
person’s life
Example
1-Self sacrifice
2-Ambition

19. Unique and limited in numbers
Examples
intelligent ,sincere ,kind , honest, funny ,
competative

20. Characteristics that are irrelevent to the
person
EXAMPLES
‘’irritability’’

21. • Cattel was influenced by great psychologist
• of the Era-spearman
• personality as a system in relation to the environment,and seeks
to explain the complicated Traits between them as they produce
change and sometimes growth in the person
• Cattell collected data from a range of people through three different
sources of data.
L-data - this is life record data such as school grades, absence from work, etc.
Q-data - this was a questionnaire designed to rate an individual's personality (known as the
16PF) .
T-data- this is data from objective tests designed to 'tap' into a personality factor.
Cattell analyzed the T-data and Q-data using a mathematical technique called factor analysis to
look at which types of behavior tended to be grouped together in the same people. He identified
16 personality traits / factors common to all people.personality construct.

22. “character denotes a person more or less
stable”
Eysenck ‘s studies that personality can be
measured across two dimensions
1-Extroversion-Introversion
2-Neurotic(unstable)-Stable

24. •The five factors Goldberg identify five factors
•Openess to experience
•Consientiousness
•Extroversion
•Agreeableness
•Neuroticism or Emotionaly stability