Class 7 Flashcards
Dispositional personality
- our core personality
- who we are across time and situation
3 key factors: dispositional personality
- meaningful individual differences
- studying the differences between people - stability or consistency over time
- maintenance of personality across time - consistency across situations
- maintenance of personality across different scenarios, environments
How can we measure the differences in personality between people?
- observer reports
- taxonomies
- interviews or tests
Situational personality
Ways our personality can interact with the world
Strong situation
Everyone would generally act the same in this situation
Situational selection
How we interact with the wrold based on the situations we put ourselves in
Aggregation
when disposition and situation collide
- using behaviour in different situations to look at how we generally behave
Personality development
identifying how we develop our personalities across time
Rank order stability: Personality development
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
Mean level stability: Personality development
about the individual and generally changes with time
- constancy of level
- do we behave (on average) the same across time?
Personality coherence: Personality development
- can we track evidence of personality from earlier to later?
- inside: underlying personality (stays the same)
- outside: behaviour (may change)
Personality change
- internal: out sense of self
- enduring: lasts over time, it is not a temporary change
How can we measure it?
- population level
- humans tend to change across development - group differences level
- how can groups be different (culture, religion, sexual identity, etc.) - individual differences level
- looking at how people can be different
- why do some people react differently than others?
Personality development over time
Temperament
- individual differences in emotion, activity level, and attention
- present since birth
Personality
- who the person is
- internal sense of self
Jaw Breaker model
They affect each other
1. temperament
2. parenting
3. friends
4. life experiences