Personality

Question 1

What is personality?

Answer 1

Lecture 3, slide 4-5

Question 2

What are the conceptual approaches to study personality?

Answer 2

Lecture 3, slide 6

Question 3

What are personality traits? What are personality types?

Answer 3

Lecture 3, slide 7-8

Question 4

How do we work out how many personality traits we have/ how has this been determined in the past? What did Cattell do?

Answer 4

Lecture 3, slide 10-12

Question 5

What is the Big 5? What do opponents of the theory say about it?

Answer 5

Lecture 3, slide 13-16

Question 6

What is the problem with FA?

Answer 6

Lecture 3, slide 18

Question 7

What is the Gigantic Three? How did Eysenck explain extraversion?

Answer 7

Lecture 3, slide 19-21

Question 8

How has Eysenck’s explanation of extraversion been investigated?

Answer 8

Lecture 3, slide 22-24

Question 9

What is the Gigantic Three? Evaluate this model.

Answer 9

Lecture 3, slide 25

Question 10

How does the Big 5 correlate/compare with the Gigantic 3?

Answer 10

Lecture 3, slide 26-27

Question 11

What traits correlate with academic performance?

Answer 11

Lecture 3, slide 30

Question 12

What traits correlate with job performance?

Answer 12

Lecture 3, slide 32-33

Question 13

What personality traits correlate with relationship length and between people in a relationship?

Answer 13

Lecture 3, slide 35-37

Question 14

What is assortative mating?

Answer 14

Assortative mating (also referred to as positive assortative mating or homogamy) is a mating pattern and a form of sexual selection in which individuals with similar phenotypes mate with one another more frequently than would be expected under a random mating pattern.

Question 15

What traits correlate with health/mortality?

Answer 15

Lecture 3, slide 39-40

Question 16

What traits correlate with happiness?

Answer 16

Lecture 3, slide 42

Question 17

What is temperament? What are the similarities and differences between temperament and personality?

Answer 17

Lecture 3, slide 45

Question 18

What did Chess and Thomas’ studies of temperament reveal?

Answer 18

Lecture 3, slide 46

Question 19

What is the Dunedin study? How was temperament investigated in the Dunedin study?

Answer 19

Lecture 3, slide 47-50

Question 20

What did cluster analysis of temperament data in the Dunedin study reveal?

Answer 20

Lecture 3, slide 51

Question 21

What did they find temperament at age 3 to predict (using the Dunedin study data)?

Answer 21

Lecture 3, slide 52-56

Question 22

What are some hypotheses on personality change? Which one is widely accepted?

Answer 22

Lecture 3, slide 58

Question 23

What are the different types of personality change?

Answer 23

Lecture 3, slide 59-60, 69

Question 24

Describe a study demonstrating mean-level personality changes?

Answer 24

Lecture 3, slide 61-63

Question 25

Describe a study demonstrating rank-level personality changes?

Answer 25

Lecture 3, slide 64-66

Question 26

How does personality change correlate with life outcomes?

Answer 26

Lecture 3, slide 68