Quiz 3 part 2

Question 1

What is a ‘good target’ for moderators of accuracy?

Answer 1

stable and well-organized, psychologically well adjusted, extraverted, agreeable
•Related to psychological health and happiness and to low social isolation,
hostility, and depression

Question 2

What would be the ‘good trait’ for moderators of accuracy?

Answer 2

easy to observe, highly visible
•Talkative versus ruminative, for example •Evidence against the idea that peer judgments are socially constructed
and agreement is based on communication
•Possible evolutionary basis: Sociosexuality: the willingness to engage in sexual relations with minimal acquaintance with or commitment to and from one’s partner; self-other agreement was higher for this trait than other traits less directly relevant to reproduction

Question 3

What are the moderators for accuracy?

Answer 3

Good targets, good traits and good information

Question 4

What are facts about the moderator “good information”? (Quantity)

Answer 4

amount or quantity
•Judgments by close acquaintances agreed more with self-judgments than those by strangers who had watched a 5-minute videotape; But, acquaintance advantage goes away when judgments are used to predict what the target will do in a situation similar to the videotape shown to the strangers
•Affects self-other agreement but not consensus

Question 5

What are facts about the moderator “good information” (Quality)?

Answer 5

Weak vs. strong situations
• Stressful or emotionally arousing situations
Best situation: one that brings out the trait you want to judge—what situation would be best for learning about dependability? flexibility? concern for others?

Question 6

Thoughts and feelings vs. daily activities?

Answer 6

watching a person talk about thoughts and feelings resulted in higher agreement with ratings from oneself and close friends

Question 7

Unstructured vs. structured situations?

Answer 7

unstructured results in more accurate judgments

Question 8

What are the implications of RAM?

Answer 8

Accurate personality judgment is difficult
•Moderators of accuracy must be the result of something that happens at one (or more) of these four stages
•Accuracy can be improved in four ways