Cattell (1943) declared that all aspects of human personality which are or have been of importance, interest, or utility have already become recorded in the substance of language. Essentials of 16PF Assessment - Page 3by Heather E. P. Cattell, James M. Schuerger - 2003 - 320 pagesLimited preview - About this book
| Theodore Schwartz, Geoffrey M. White, Catherine A. Lutz - Psychology - 1992 - 368 pages
...personality-measurement techniques, undertook an inductive review of English personality terms with the assumption that, "all aspects of human personality which are...already become recorded in the substance of language" (1943: 483). This assumption - one that essentially argues for the behavioral validity of ethnopsychology... | |
| Kurt Danziger - Psychology - 1997 - 226 pages
...argument. RB Cattell, to cite only one prominent example, said that he was 'making only the one assumption that all aspects of human personality which are or...been of importance, interest, or utility have already been recorded in the substance of language' (Cattell, 1943: 483). Such a statement would not have been... | |
| Cary L. Cooper, Lawrence A. Pervin - 514 pages
...(1943a, 1943b. 1947). Cattell subscribed to what subsequently has become known as the lexical hypothesis: "All aspects of human personality which are or have...already become recorded in the substance of language" (1943b, p. 483). He began with the Allport and Odbert trait-name listing but, noteworthy and often... | |
| C. Robert Cloninger - Medical - 1999 - 552 pages
...been penned by Klages, Goldberg, or other advocates of the lexical hypothesis, Cattell (1943) declared that all aspects of human personality which are or...already become recorded in the substance of language. For, throughout history, the most fascinating subject of general discourse, and also that in which... | |
| W. Edward Craighead, Charles B. Nemeroff - Psychology - 2002 - 502 pages
...recorded in language. Cattell looked primarily to language to begin his search. because he was convinced that "all aspects of human personality which are or...become recorded in the substance of language" (Cattell. l943i. Whether or not it is true that language exhaustively delimited the field of study. it is certainly... | |
| Jeffrey J. Magnavita - Psychology - 2004 - 600 pages
...adaptive approaches to formerly threatening situations. THE BIG FIVE MODEL AND THE FIVE-FACTOR MODEL 1943: "all aspects of human personality which are or have...utility have already become recorded in the substance of the language" (p. 483). This lexical hypothesis (Saucier & Goldberg, 1996) assumes that an examination... | |
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