lecture 11

Question 1

person situation debate

Answer 1

personality psychology: behaviour determined by personality
social psychology: behaviour is determined by social situation

Question 2

person argument

Answer 2

knowing someones traits allows us to predict their behaviour

Question 3

what are te person argument assumptions

Answer 3

personality is consistent overtime
should result in consistent behavior across situations

Question 4

personality consistency paradox

Answer 4

we intuitivey see personality as stable oevr time and across situations but behaviour is actually inconsistent across situations

Question 5

correlation between personality traits and specific behaviour is

Answer 5

0.3

Question 6

inconsistency in behaviour across situations is evidence of

Answer 6

power of the situation

Question 7

to resolve the persnality consistency paradox

Answer 7

aggregate individuals behaviour on a iven dimension across situations to estimate a true personality score

Question 8

within person variability

Answer 8

assumes that variation in personality across situations is meaningless noise and a product of measurement error

Question 9

strengths of the resolving method

Answer 9

personality score accurately predicts behaviour at any one given moment for a specific individual

Question 10

limitations

Answer 10

less accurate at predicting behaviour at any one given time for a specific individual

cant explain why people with similar personality scores react differently in a given situation

Question 11

between person variability

Answer 11

assumes that people with the same score on a personality trait will behave in the same way in a particular situation

Question 12

cognitive affective processing system

Answer 12

variatio in behaviour across situations is not evidence of the non existence of personality or meaningless noise but meaningful and predictable

Question 13

specific situations predictably elicit specific

Answer 13

behavioural responses in specific people

Question 14

to understand the vaiation in peoples behaviour we need to

Answer 14

understand how theyre interpreting the situaion

Question 15

persons mind is made up of

Answer 15

cognitive affective units

Question 16

cognitive affective units

Answer 16

encoding and construals
expectancies and beliefs
affective and physiological resposes
goals
behavioural scripts and self-regulatory strategies

Question 17

encodings and construals

Answer 17

way that self other people situation is being perceived

Question 18

expectancies and beliefs

Answer 18

expectations about outcomes, self efficacy

Question 19

affective and physiological responses

Answer 19

emotions physical sensations

Question 20

goals

Answer 20

relevant to the situation values

Question 21

behavioural scripts and self regulatory strategies

Answer 21

how to go about achieving desired goals

Question 22

caus are organized

Answer 22

in an associative networks

Question 23

organozation of caus is

Answer 23

unique to each person
determoned by past experiences and biological predispositions

Question 24

situations activate a particular set of

Answer 24

caus
not all of them are the active at the same time