corse wrap up

Question 1

Which Big Five Dimension is Most
Strongly Related to Health?

Answer 1

Consientious

Question 2

low conscientious predict

Answer 2

heavy driking and tabaco use
marijuana and heroin
eating junk food
obesity
risky sexual behaviour
drunk driving

Question 3

1999 study assessed 963 adults

Answer 3

Originally studied in 1959-1967, as children
– Childhood personality rated by teachers
* Findings
– Less agreeable girls > adult smokers
– Emotionally unstable children > adult drinkers
– Less agreeable children > higher BMI
– Unconscientious girls > higher BMI

Question 4

Personality and Work Outcomes

Answer 4

Large percentage of American corporations use
personality tests as part of the hiring and
promotion process

• Most popular personality test is the Myers-Briggs
  Type Indicator (MBTI)
  – It’s one of the worst personality measures ever
  developed

Question 5

which traits predict work sucess?

Answer 5

concientious and extraversion(for sales job)

Question 6

which personality trait predict crime

Answer 6

A-,C-,N+

Question 7

how do what drives behaviour ?

Answer 7

Psychodynamic
– Defense mechanisms
– Instinctual drives (basic instincts)

• Phenomenological/Humanistic
  – Self-concept; identity, striving to self-actualize
• Trait/biological
  – Traits (stable dispositions)
  – Genes, physiology
• Learning/behaviorist
  – Learned stimulus-response patterns, reinforcement,
  modeling
• Cognitive
  Personal constructs; explanatory style, schemas

Question 8

which one is right?

Answer 8

depends on what your asking

but all of them are a little bit right and wrong