Describe Trait Approaches to Personality

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Essay

Describe trait approaches to personality.Briefly describe one of Gordon Allport's,Raymond Cattell's,or Hans Eysenck's trait theories of personality.Identify the Big Five personality dimensions central to contemporary trait approaches.Outline several ways in which the validity of the Big Five theory is supported.

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Definitions:

Desk And Chairs

Essential pieces of furniture often used in offices, schools, and homes for the purposes of working, studying, or sitting.

Chronemics

The study of how time is used in communication and how it affects interpersonal relationships.

Paraverbal Communication

The aspects of spoken communication that do not involve words, such as pitch, tone, and speed of speaking.

Kinesics

The study of the way in which certain body movements and gestures serve as a form of non-verbal communication.