Class 7 Flashcards

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Dispositional personality

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  • our core personality
  • who we are across time and situation
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3 key factors: dispositional personality

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  1. meaningful individual differences
    - studying the differences between people
  2. stability or consistency over time
    - maintenance of personality across time
  3. consistency across situations
    - maintenance of personality across different scenarios, environments
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3
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How can we measure the differences in personality between people?

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  • observer reports
  • taxonomies
  • interviews or tests
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Situational personality

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Ways our personality can interact with the world

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5
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Strong situation

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Everyone would generally act the same in this situation

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Situational selection

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How we interact with the wrold based on the situations we put ourselves in

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7
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Aggregation

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when disposition and situation collide
- using behaviour in different situations to look at how we generally behave

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8
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Personality development

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identifying how we develop our personalities across time

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Rank order stability: Personality development

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compared to other people and doesn’t happen very often
- maintenance of individual position within a group
- rank order change: did your personality get stronger/weaker or higher/lower?
test-retest reliability

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Mean level stability: Personality development

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about the individual and generally changes with time
- constancy of level
- do we behave (on average) the same across time?

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Personality coherence: Personality development

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  • can we track evidence of personality from earlier to later?
  • inside: underlying personality (stays the same)
  • outside: behaviour (may change)
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12
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Personality change

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  • internal: out sense of self
  • enduring: lasts over time, it is not a temporary change
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13
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How can we measure it?

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  1. population level
    - humans tend to change across development
  2. group differences level
    - how can groups be different (culture, religion, sexual identity, etc.)
  3. individual differences level
    - looking at how people can be different
    - why do some people react differently than others?
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14
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Personality development over time

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Temperament
- individual differences in emotion, activity level, and attention
- present since birth
Personality
- who the person is
- internal sense of self

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15
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Jaw Breaker model

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They affect each other
1. temperament
2. parenting
3. friends
4. life experiences

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16
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Behavioural inhibition

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  • appears early in life and demonstrates stability across development
  • neuro-biological origian
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Infants and toddlerhood: Behavioural inhibition

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  • negative reactions to novelty
  • withdrawal from novel/unfamiliar social and non-social situations
  • kids with BI will try and get away from new things
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Older kids: Behavioural inhibition

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  • hyper-vigilant
  • fearful
  • withdrawing
19
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Psychosocial outcomes of BI

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  1. Social difficulties
  2. Academic difficulties
  3. 4-7 times more likely to develop a social anxiety disorder