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In a well written paragraph, describe how Sonia Sotomayer would score on a test of the Big-5 personality factors and how his specific set of traits may have contributed to his genius.
In a well written paragraph, Sonia Sotomayer would score on a test of the Big-5 personality factors by first explaining the concept of personality and then explaining briefly about the 5 major factors of personality.
Personality
According to APA(2017) Personality is the individual difference in the characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and behaving.
The concept of personality differs from freud to jung or from rogers to maslow and so on.
BIG-5 PERSONALITY FACTORS
Lewis Goldberg is the researcher who contributed much towards personality. His ground work was breaking the Raymond Cattell's 16 personality factor into 5 personality factors. The 5 primary factors of personality according to Lewis are
BIG-5 PERSONALITY FACTORS
BIG 5 TRAITS DEFINITION Openess to experience the tendency to appreciate new arts, ideas, values, feelings, etc Conscientiouness the tendency to be careful, on-time, to follow rules, to work hard, etc Extraversion the tendency to be talkactive, sociable, to enjoy with others, dominant, etc Agreeableness the tendency to agree and go along with others Neuroticism the tendency to frequently experience negative emotions (sad, anger, jealous, insecurity) and feeling low about one's own selfOPENESS TO EXPERIENCE: Depth and complexity of an individual's mental life and experience. This is majorly based on the individual's willingness to try new things, ability to think out of the box. Common traits include
CONSCIENTIOUNESS: Tendency to have control over impulses and act in more socially acceptable way. Behaviours will be goal-directed. They can easily overcome procastination attitude. Some common traits include
EXTRAVERSION: There is two familiar end of this-extraversion and introversion. It concerns where an indiviual draw energy and how they interact with others. The traits associated with extraversions are
AGREEABLENESS: This is concerned with how people get along with others. The orientations to others. Traits include
NEUROTICISM: Neuroticism is concerns with the negative traits. It is one's own comfortableness within their own self. Comman traits include