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What is meant by personality?

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  • Traits that are stable across time and situations

- Preferences on certain ways of behaving

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What can affect personalities?

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-The situation you are in can help determine your behaviour

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What is the fundamental attribution error?

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-Individuals tendency to overemphasise internal characteristics in explaining behaviour rather than external factors

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What is actor-observer bias?

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-People overestimate role of situation and underemphasise personality

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How many dimensions of personality are there?

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-5

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What is the percentage of variance and what is the explanation for this?

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  • 50% variance

- Explained by genetic factors

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What external factor also plays a role in personality?

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-Environment

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What should be aware of when determine inherited characteristics?

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-Beware what is inherited are more likely to be limits around set points rather than absolute characteristics.

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What are the 5 dimensions of personality?

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  • Extraversion
  • Agreeableness
  • Conscientiousness
  • Neuroticism
  • Openness
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What statistical technique determines personality?

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  • Factor analysis
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What is extraversion?

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-How sociable and “loud” someone is

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What is agreeableness?

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-How easy it is to get along with someone

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How does agreeableness depend?

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  • How agreeable you want a person will depend on the situation
  • eg lawyer doctor
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What is personality disorder determined by during assessment?

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-behaviour

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What is meant by Conscientiousness?

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-how hard working someone is

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What are issues with conscientious people?

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  • they have difficulty relaxing

- see everything in life as a task

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What is issue with unconscientious people?

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-Have difficulty focusing on the task

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What is Neuroticism?

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-having the tendency to think negatively and think of the word in a negative way

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What is non-neurotic?

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-Think positively

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What is advantage to neuroticism?

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  • see threats quicker
  • more balanced decisions made
  • increases survival likeliness
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-What is negative of neuroticism?

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-more likely to have depression at some point in your life

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What is openness?

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-Willingness to explore new things

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What is negative of openness?

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-more exposure to risk

24
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How is personality assessed?

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-Self report questionnaire

25
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What is potential problem with self-report questionnaire?

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  • do not know if it is truthful response
26
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What are the three forms of personality based outcomes?

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  • Individual
  • Interpersonal
  • Social/Interpersonal
27
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What is social well-being comprised of?

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  • A cognitive component

- An emotional component

28
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What is the cognitive component?

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  • personal judgement on life satisfaction
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What is the emotional component?

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-The experience of positive and absence of negative emotions

30
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How does extraversion and neuroticism affect the way people see things?

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  • people high in extraversion and low in neuroticism tend to see events and situations in a more positive light
31
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What factors are related to happiness?

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  • extraversion

- neuroticism

32
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How are demographic factors related to well-being?

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-weakly/moderately related

33
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Examples of demographic factors?

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  • age
  • sex
  • marital status
  • employment
34
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What do personality traits have a stable effect on?

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  • health
  • longevity
  • those with more meaningful and longer relationships are more likely to live longer
35
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What does low agreeableness appear to correlate?

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-predicts poorer health

36
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What traits leads to better health?

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  • extraversion (want to live longer, make and keep friends)

- conscientious

37
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What is conscientious associated with?

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-Reduced physical and mental health risk

38
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What is neuroticism associated with?

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-Increased physical and mental health risk

39
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What is empathy a combination of?

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  • extraversion
  • agreeableness
  • emotional regulation
40
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What is empathy best predicted by?

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-best predicted by low neuroticism

41
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What personality traits can affect negative relationship outcomes?

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-Neuroticism and low agreeableness

42
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What does conscientiousness predict?

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-work performance across occupations

43
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How does agreeableness affect job performance?

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-Relates to job performance when a teamwork is important

44
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What is years of education related to?

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-intellect, or openness

45
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What traits perhaps indicate how one feels about work?

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  • extraversion

- emotional stability

46
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What is emotional stability related to?

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-Financial stability

47
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What is low conscientiousness consistently associated with?

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-criminal/anti social behaviour

48
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What is low agreeableness and low conscientiousness associated with?

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  • Low agreeableness, and low conscientiousness
49
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What traits improve as you age?

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  • age conscientiousness and emotional stability

- agreeableness

50
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What decreases across lifespan?

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  • openness

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