Chapter 6: Traits and Types, The Big Five and Beyond Flashcards
What is the single-trait approach?
It examines the correlations between one trait and many behaviors
What is the many-trait approach?
It determine which traits correlate with the specific behaviour, and then seek to explain the pattern of correlations
What is the essential-trait approach?
It finds which traits are the most important
How are people scoring high in the self-monitoring test?
They carefully survey every situation they enter looking for cues as to the appropriate way to act, and they adjust their behaviour accordingly
How are people scoring low in the self-monitoring test?
They are more consistent regardless of the situation, because their behaviour is guided more by their inner personality
What are overcontrolled people?
They are high in ego-control dimension, inhibit impulses
What are undercontrolled people?
They are low in ego control, are more prone to act immediately
What is the lexical hypothesis?
It is that the important aspects of human life will be labels, and that if something truly important and universal, many words will exist for it in all languages
What is the definition a a well adjusted person?
They are adaptable, flexible, resourceful, and interpersonally successful
What is the definition a a maladjusted over-controlling person?
They are too uptight for its own good, denying himself pleasure needlessly, and being difficult to deal with on an interpersonal level – Control freaks
What is the definition a a maladjusted under-controlling person?
They are too impulsive, prone to be involved in activities such as crime and unsafe sex
What it the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)?
It is a 116 T/F test that will place your personality according to the four opposing tendencies
A researcher who is interested in the construct of cooperativeness and wants to discover what this trait is able to predict should use the…
a. single-trait approach
b. many-trait approach
c. essential-trait approach
d. typological approach
a. single-trait approach
Which of the Big Five traits is the best predictor of relationship problems, criminal behavior, and mental illness?
a. extraversion
b. agreeableness
c. conscientiousness
d. neuroticism
e. openness to experience
d. neuroticism
