Critically evaluate the concept of personality trait and its implications for measurement

Q1 Critically evaluate the concept of personality
trait focusing on the implications for
measurement Q2 Compare and contrast social
cognition social i

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................2
Q1................................................................................................................................................2
Q2................................................................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Personality trait reflect the people’s characteristic patter of thoughts, feeling and behavior
whereas social psychology is specific study of how the people’s thoughts, feeling and behavior
influenced all the psychological variables that are measurable in human being. The present study
also highlights these concepts and develops a deep understanding about such topic. For the same,
present report will critically evaluate the concept of personality trait focusing on the implications
for measurement and then compare and contrast social cognition social identity and discursive
approaches to social psychology.
Q1
According to Prentice, Zeidan and Wang (2020) personality trait reflects the people’s
characteristic pattern of thoughts, feeling, behaviour. Thus, it is imply consistently as well as
stability where someone scores high on the specific trait like extraversion is expected to be
sociable in different situation. On the other side, Sudha and Shahnawaz (2020) argued that
personality traits reflect the basic dimensions on which the people is differs. As per the trait
psychologists there are limited number of these dimensions and each of the individuals fall
somewhere in each dimension. On the critically side, it is has been critically evaluated that the
theory does not believe traits change over time. Also, it is also examined that traits does not
change from the situation though people are same at all times.
In accordance with the Jankowsky, Olaru and Schroeders (2020) there are three criteria
which are characterize personality traits such as Consistency which means that individual must
be somewhat consistent across the situation in their behaviours related to trait. For examine, if an
individual is talkative at home then they must be talkative at work as well. Another aspect is
Stability where an individual with a trait must be stable over time in behaviour related to the
characteristic. Like, at the age of 30, an individual is talkative then at the age of 40, they will be
talkative. Last is, Individual difference, this stated that people different from one another on
behaviour related to trait.
The implication of the personality trait measurement reflects that there are five broad
factors of personality traits such as: