W2 Chapter 4.8 - Interactionism As Context-Dependent Expression Of Personality

Question 1

What is a verbal hedge?

Answer 1

A word or phrase that limits a trait’s applicability

Question 2

What is Mishel & Shoda’s (1995) view of how traits affect behaviour?

Answer 2

traits are not freestanding tendencies to act, but patterns of linkages between situation and action.

Question 3

What is a behaviour signature?

Answer 3

The pattern of situation-behaviour links that person has established over time and experience

Question 4

What is the conclusion about the impact of traits from the interactionist view?1.

Answer 4

That the impact of traits seems context-dependent

Question 5

What are the three views of the effects of traits on behaviour?

Answer 5

1. absolute consistency
2. relative consistency
3. an interactionist model

Question 6

What is absolute consistency?

Answer 6

People’s traits are displayed at a relatively constant level, no matter the situation

Question 7

What is relative consistency?

Answer 7

that situations influence the overall levels at which the trait is displayed, but people retain the dame ordering

Question 8

What is the interactionist model?

Answer 8

some situations permit or even elicit individual differences, whereas others do not