Exam 2 Flashcards
Observer rating surveys
Provide qn independent assessment of personality
Big 5 personality model
Proposes that 5 basic dimension underlie all others and 3ncompass most the significant variations in human personality
Conscientiousness
Measure of consistency and reliability
Emotional stability
Ability to withstand stress
Extraversion
Relational approach toward social world
Dark triad
Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy
Core self eval
Conclusions individual have about their competencies
Self monitoring
Measure ability to adjust behavior to external situational factors
Situational strength theory
The way personality translated to behavior depends on the strength of behavior
Hoe situational strength is measures
Clarity
Consistency
Constraints
Consequences
Trait activation theory
Predicts that some situations activates a trait more than others
Terminal value
Goals a person would like to achieve in their lifetime
Instrumental values
Preferable modes of behavior or means of achieving terminal values
Attribution theory
Explains the way we judge people differently depending on the meaning we attribute to a behavior
If externally or internally caused facts
Distinctiveness
Consensus
Consistency
Fundamental attribution error
Tendency to underestimate the influence of external factors and overestimate internal ones when judging behaviors of others
Selective perception
Tendency to choose to interpret what one sees based on one’s interest or background
Contract effect
Ecal of a person characteristics that is affected by comparison with other people recently encountered who rank higher or lower on the same characteristics
Bounded Rationality
Making decisions by constructing simplified models that extract the essential features from problems without capturing capturing complexity
Anchoring bias
Fixate on initial info which leads to failing to adapt with new info
Availability bias
Base judgment in info that is readily available
Deonance
Decision due to obligation consistent with norms, rules, or laws
Creative behavior
Problem formulation
Info gathering
Idea generation
Idea evaluation
Rational decision making
How individuals should behave to maximize some outcome
