Lecture 3

Question 1

What is the difference between personality psychology and social psychology?

Answer 1

Personality psychology says who you are determines how you feel and behave. Social psychology says who you are with determines how you feel and behave.

Question 2

What is well-being?

Answer 2

A state of happiness of contentment

Question 3

What is job-satisfaction?

Answer 3

An attitude towards a job in terms of the rewards and context of the work itself

Question 4

According to the Hedonic perspective, how is well-being defined?

Answer 4

The presence of pleasure and the absence of pain

Question 5

According to the Eudaimonic perspective, how is well-being defined?

Answer 5

Satisfaction of psychological needs. Measured by level of self acceptance, positive relationships etc

Question 6

According to the Resource perspective, what is well-being?

Answer 6

Having resources to satisfy psychological needs and insure against future frustrations. Resources can be emotions, money, social network

Question 7

According to Maslach and Jackson, what are the three dimensions of burnout?

Answer 7

-Emotional exhaustion
-Depersonalisation
-(Reduced) Personal performance

Question 8

What is performance?

Answer 8

Any activity or collection of responses that leads to a result or has an effect on the environment

Question 9

What does the Happy-Productive hypothesis propose?

Answer 9

That happy workers have higher levels of job-related performance behaviours

Question 10

What are the five generic personality traits?

Answer 10

-Extroversion
-Agreeableness
-Conscientiousness
-Emotional stability
-Openness

Question 11

Out of the Big Five personality traits, which one has the strongest correlation to well-being?

Answer 11

Neuroticism (the opposite of emotional stability)

Question 12

Out of the Big Five personality traits, which one has the strongest relationship with motivation?

Answer 12

Neuroticism (the opposite of emotional stability)

Question 13

What are four abilities that are part of emotional stability?

Answer 13

-Self awareness and self understanding
-Self regulation
-Social skills
-Empathy

Question 14

Why does emotional intelligence increase performance?

Answer 14

-Negotiation
-Colleague and customer service
-Decision making
-Motivation

Question 15

When we talk about motivation, what are the three psychological needs?

Answer 15

-Need for relatedness
-Need for competence
-Need for autonomy

Question 16

What is the difference between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation?

Answer 16

Intrinsic means you take pleasure in the task itself. Extrinsic motivation can be wanting to achieve goals, wanting rewards or fearing punishment

Question 17

How does extrinsic motivation affect intrinsic motivation?

Answer 17

When there are extrinsic incentives linked to performance then these “crowd out” intrinsic motivations.

Question 18

How do extrinsic and intrinsic motivations affect performance?

Answer 18

Extrinsic motivation was a good predictor of the quantity of the performance, intrinsic motivation predicted the quality

Question 19

What is a key take away from self-determination theory?

Answer 19

Providing extrinsic motivation for behaviour that had previously only been intrinsically rewarded reduces both motivation and performance

Question 20

What are basic psychological needs that affect well-being?

Answer 20

-Need for acceptance
-Need for optimal predictability
-Need for skills

Question 21

What is the effect of attention on performance?

Answer 21

The newer the task is, the more important attention is