lecture 11 Flashcards
person situation debate
personality psychology: behaviour determined by personality
social psychology: behaviour is determined by social situation
person argument
knowing someones traits allows us to predict their behaviour
what are te person argument assumptions
personality is consistent overtime
should result in consistent behavior across situations
personality consistency paradox
we intuitivey see personality as stable oevr time and across situations but behaviour is actually inconsistent across situations
correlation between personality traits and specific behaviour is
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inconsistency in behaviour across situations is evidence of
power of the situation
to resolve the persnality consistency paradox
aggregate individuals behaviour on a iven dimension across situations to estimate a true personality score
within person variability
assumes that variation in personality across situations is meaningless noise and a product of measurement error
strengths of the resolving method
personality score accurately predicts behaviour at any one given moment for a specific individual
limitations
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
between person variability
assumes that people with the same score on a personality trait will behave in the same way in a particular situation
cognitive affective processing system
variatio in behaviour across situations is not evidence of the non existence of personality or meaningless noise but meaningful and predictable
specific situations predictably elicit specific
behavioural responses in specific people
to understand the vaiation in peoples behaviour we need to
understand how theyre interpreting the situaion
persons mind is made up of
cognitive affective units
cognitive affective units
encoding and construals
expectancies and beliefs
affective and physiological resposes
goals
behavioural scripts and self-regulatory strategies
encodings and construals
way that self other people situation is being perceived
expectancies and beliefs
expectations about outcomes, self efficacy
affective and physiological responses
emotions physical sensations
goals
relevant to the situation values
behavioural scripts and self regulatory strategies
how to go about achieving desired goals
caus are organized
in an associative networks
organozation of caus is
unique to each person
determoned by past experiences and biological predispositions
situations activate a particular set of
caus
not all of them are the active at the same time
