McCrea and Cost developed a concept in which they termed The Big Five. The Big Five consisted of five main traits: Extroversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Neuroticism, and Openness. The idea of this theory was that an individual’s personality was captured by these five different dimensions (Friedman and Schustack 2006). This theory was mostly research driven than theory-based, but all the same helped to assess an individual’s personality. The five adjectives stated above were the five dimensions that an individual’s personality could fall under. A person could be high in agreeableness, high in openness and low in neuroticism. Now, what does this all mean?
A person who is considered as being high in Extroversion means that that person…show more content… If a person is low in openness, they are considered as simple, plain, or shallow (Friedman and Schustack 2006). Shirley Temple was nothing but high in openness. From the very top of her naturally blond bouncy curls, all the way down to her white and black little tap shoes, Shirley was a very gifted artist. Nothing about that little girl’s personality was plain or simple. All Shirley Temple had to do was stick out her little pouty lip and the audience, crowd, or producer would fall in love. Shirley was always ready to play a new role, be a new person, at any given time. At one point in her life, Shirley wanted to go and meet Dorothy, not play her part, but actually meet her. She was ready to leave that instant (Black 69). Experiencing different cultures is also under the term of openness. Shirley Temple and a man she called Uncle Billy were the first interracial dancing couple in movie history. There was not judgement. There was not prejudice. She was happy to be dancing and to be experiencing something new. One of the most influential quotes that truly influenced Shirley’s life was that she spoke about how she had already been several dozen people over the course of the last few years. Becoming one more person would only be a joy to her (Black