Chapter 5: Personality Judgment

Question 1

What is the intellectual expectancy effect?

Answer 1

It is how a teacher/evaluator will grant more opportunities to a student if the test high in a IQ test

Question 2

What is the social expectancy effect?

Answer 2

It is how perception of attractiveness influence behaviour

Question 3

How constructivists view the accuracy of personality judgment?

Answer 3

For them, personality is a social construction from human ideas; no interpretations of reality are better than another

Question 4

How critical realism view the accuracy of personality judgment?

Answer 4

All information that might be helpful, but they are not equally correct

Question 5

What is the convergent validation?

Answer 5

It is when many observations brings you to one observation

Question 6

What is the inter judge agreement?

Answer 6

When many people judge someone the same way

Question 7

What are the four stages of RAM?

Answer 7

1. Relevance
2. Availability
3. Detection
4. Utilization

Question 8

Personality judgments in daily life…
a. are much less important than the results of personality tests
b. affect the opportunities that people are given
c. easily reach a high level of accuracy
d. have low accuracy for all judges

Answer 8

b. affect the opportunities that people are given

Question 9

Based on the four moderators of accuracy, it can be concluded that…
a. the good judge must have a specified set of characteristics
b. the trait that is being judged has the most influence on the level of accuracy
c. people who are easily judged tend to have psychological disorders
d. information quality will be high in weak, unstructured, and emotionally arousing situations

Answer 9

d. information quality will be high in weak, unstructured, and emotionally arousing situations