Persons and Situations

Question 1

complete the sentence:
personality psychologists have tended to focus more on _____, while social psychologists have tended to focus more on ______

Answer 1

the person; the situation

Question 2

what did Kurt Lewin’s Field theory propose? when?

Answer 2

B = f(P,E)

Behaviour is a function of the person and the environment

Question 3

what are the 2 key claims of Walter Mischel (1968)

so, what is his conclusion and what is the name of his approach/theory?

Answer 3

1. Personality a weak predictor of behaviour (r ~ .30).
2. Behaviour varies considerably over situations.
   …
   The concept of a personality trait is “untenable”. Behaviour is largely driven by situations
   - situationism

Question 4

what are some situationist “spin-off” theories?

Answer 4

• The Fundamental Attribution Error

- The Conceptual Similarity Critique

Question 5

what is the breakdown of Cohen’s effect sizes ?

Answer 5

Small: r = .10
Medium: r = .30
Large: r = .50

Question 6

what did Richard et al. (2003) find as the average effect sizes across 25,000 studies of 8 million people in personality and psychology…

Answer 6

.21