Raymond Cattell

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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