Raymond Cattell
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Raymond Cattell
Creator of the 16 Personality Factors
At first he was very interested in chemistry and achieved first class honors
Entered the field of psychology after seeing the impacts of the war and being influenced by many other people and a period of soul searching then concluded in doing social sciences to solve the worlds problems
He worked in the first child guidance clinic
He worked as a professor in several different schools about psychology
Worked in World War 1 as a doctor
Hired an assistant by the name of Charles Spearman who is well known for intellectual assessments
Developed questionnaires to discover types of personality traits
Published the 16PF or Personality Factors in 1949.
Says that everybody has every trait to some degree
16 Traits are:
Abstractness
Imagined vs. practical
Apprehension
Insecure vs. confident
Dominance
Aggressive vs. passive
Emotional Stability
Calm vs. highstrung
Liveliness
Enthusiastic vs. serious
Openness to Change
Liberal vs. traditional
Perfectionism
Compulsive vs. indifferent
Privateness
Pretentious vs. unpretentious
Reasoning
Abstract vs. concrete
Rule Consciousness
Moralistic vs. free-thinking
Self Reliance
Leader vs. follower
Sensitivity
Sensitive vs. tough
Social Boldness
Outgoing vs. timid
Tension
Tense vs. relaxed
Vigilance
Suspicious vs. accepting
Warmth
Warm-hearted vs. critical
Born in 1905 in England
Grew up in a seaside Devonshire town
His father was a mechanical engineer who developed items for WWI
He worked his way through high school and earned a county scholarship to attend London University
Witnesses many new inventions like electricity, telephones, and cars and planes
He believed personality was not some untestable and unknowable thing, so he was eager to find out more about it.
Believed it was able to be studied and organized
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