Practice question · Put in order
Order the reasoning that 'introvert' is not a separate personality type.
- 'Introvert' simply means a relatively lower score on that dimension
- So introversion and extraversion are poles of one trait, not two types
- Extraversion is measured as a single continuous dimension
- Most people score somewhere in the middle, not at an extreme
Hints
- Start from extraversion being a continuous dimension, not a category.
- The conclusion is that the two labels are poles of one spectrum.
Show the answer
- Extraversion is measured as a single continuous dimension
- Most people score somewhere in the middle, not at an extreme
- 'Introvert' simply means a relatively lower score on that dimension
- So introversion and extraversion are poles of one trait, not two types
Why
Because extraversion is a continuous dimension with most people near the middle, 'introvert' just denotes a relatively lower score - so introversion and extraversion are two poles of one trait, not distinct types. Treating them as separate categories is the named pitfall.
Practise The Big Five Trait Model
The app has 3 more questions on this lesson, and keeps your place in the course. Psychology I is free to start.
More questions on The Big Five Trait Model
- Conscientiousness predicts job and academic performance across many different settings.
- Extraversion is the Big Five trait that best predicts job performance across almost every occupation.
- Across cultures, people become more conscientious and agreeable and less neurotic between twenty and fifty.…
- The Big Five were proposed by a theorist who argued personality should have five dimensions.
- People describe themselves as introverts or extraverts, as though these were two kinds of person. Trait…
- Classify each described person by the Big Five trait they score HIGH on.
- Sort each description by whether it reflects a HIGH or LOW scorer on the named trait.
- Extraversion and introversion are not two personality types. What are they?