Human Growth and Development / Unit 12 HGD 1662 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Five Factor Model in Adulthood
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The idea
The Five Factor Model describes personality as openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism, viewed by its originators as biologically based tendencies interacting with environment.
In practice
The acronym OCEAN, a memory aid for the five traits.
Where people slip
Personality both steers developmental tasks, as an extravert seeks people-facing work, and adapts to them.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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