Week 1

Question 0

McRae and costa think there are only three schools of personLity, which ones?

Answer 0

Psychoanalytic, behVioural Nd humanistic

Question 1

Which evangelical school was focus on in quiet
A. Saddleback.
B. Harvard.
C. McGill
D. Juilliard

Answer 1

A. saddleback

Question 2

Mc rea and costa account for the multitude of theories of personality including the more recent social learning one to?

Answer 2

Selective attention

Ie over aion can fine examples of openness and love and support their idea.

Question 3

In mc rea and costa article they speak of Maddi who places individual characteristic under two categories:_______ and_________.

Answer 3

Peripheral characteristics and core characteristics

Question 4

Is Trait theory consistent over time? How may it change?

Answer 4

Not necessarily.
Short term consistancy does not preclude long term consistancy, traits are dispositions not guaranteed. The must be replaced with another trait to have changed

Question 5

Define traits according to costa

Answer 5

Traits are dimensions of individual differences that show consistencies of thought, feeling and actions.

Question 6

Traits follow which distribution?

Answer 6

The normal distribution

Question 7

Koestner background (5)

Answer 7

25yearsatMcGill
Social,Personality,Developmental,Clinical.
PhDfromUniversityofRochester
Post-docatHarvardUniversity
CurrentResearch:Goal-settingandself-regulation.

Question 8

What is furby’s fatal flaw?

Answer 8

Too extroverted, does not shut up/turn off.

Question 9

Why study personality? According to Koestner

Answer 9

Well, we can understand others better and more effectively, we can understand ourself.
Koestner was introverted and wanted to develop a personality. Review the note df rom very first class.

Question 10

How many words describe personality traits?

Answer 10

4000

Question 11

What method was used to distill five big traits

Answer 11

Factor analysis.

Reduce 18000 traits to 4000 personality ones, take out synonyms,

Question 12

What are four big personality course q’s

Answer 12

What is the most useful and economical way to
organize our personality judgments?
What do we need to know about a person to know
them well?
How much do people change in their personality over their life?
How does personality affect what happens in our life?Relationships;
Occupational success;

Question 13

How can we describe an individuals personality?

Answer 13

Using big five traits. 
Openness
Consciensciousness
Extraversion 
Agreeableness
Neuroticism

Question 14

Example for personlity traits

Answer 14

Pam and Jim from The Office.

Question 15

What can you tell me about extraversion

Answer 15

Gregariousness and sociability.
Most professors tend to be introverted.
Don Taylor is extroverted.
Ppl person.
Factor analysis also shows other things@ walking fast talking fast@ high activity. Assertiveness s and dominance .
First thing we notice about other people.

Don’t need to be extroverted to be succrssful.

Extroverts pick up French. Easier to go with it.

‘Big ONE’

Group dynamic imtrovert difficult to manGe seminar

Not so much dyadic ally more for groups.

Question 16

What can be said about neuroticism

Answer 16

Emotionally reactive
{ anxious.
Emotionally stable. Stable steady.
Seinfeld examples used. 
Vulnerable anxious depressed slighted worried.

Normal distribution neurotics like other big five traits

In what way adaptive evolutionary purpose

Culture has variations. Neurotic ppl worry because they have things to worry about.
Ex. The crude
‘Never not be afraid’ shows adaptive.

Can find genetic basedd. Fairly stable. Shown to be constant through

George Constanta
Woody Allan.

Question 17

What trait is Koestner most unsure about where he ranks

Answer 17

Openness

Question 18

What can be said about the agreeableness trait

Answer 18

Dan McAdams
Key to love

Pam or Jim in The Office.

. Tough minded.

Dyadic ally important.

All big five independNt of others.

These ppl are better at life. Managers kids. Empathize and relate easily to others.

Worst label.
Avoid conflict.
Assess humanness.

Question 19

Research has found that those who rate high onagreeableness are often described as

Answer 19

warm,friendly, kind, polite, generous, and helpful.

Question 20

Examples of Linus and Lucy and Seinfeld, what do they show

Answer 20

Linus Lucy opposite on personality dimensions.
Lucy low agreeableness.
Snoopy open extroverted
Charlie
Introverted.
Seinfeld. All high on neurotic except, Cramer
Cramer is psychotic

All are all miserable and quarrelsome

No hugs or learnin for romance no human connection, no benefit from experience.

Question 21

Five features of the big five

Answer 21

Apply to all people
Bipolar
Comparative (normal distribution)
Non-conditional
De-contextualized

Question 22

Some ideas on big five usefulness

Answer 22

Universal. Yup

Big five psychology of a stranger.
After short time. Others ratings would correspond pretty well.
A disposition all signature.

Starting point and predict.
Other things too though that you will want to know.

They are Ll bipolar.

4 of 5 are socially desirable except neurotoxin.

They are compRitive.
They can rank order.

Reunion. Rank order quite stable.for big five
Non conditional and decontextuLize.
Some ade uncomfortable being described in trIts. Need context.
Most want to conditionality.
Unconditional big five capture general picture.

Question 23

Sophie’s friend is interpersonally gifted as she…

What can we say about consistancy over time and effectiveness of assessment on kids?

Answer 23

Do they Predict behaviour.
Trait scale only predicts .20
Aggregate behaviours.
Mean of behaviour correlates .8
Wow
They do predict behaviour as long as you use different xontexts@ 

Unlikely kids will process info in the way we would. Less nuanced. Behaviour kids display. Works for them though too.

Story Sophie extrovert friend.

Taxi at age 3 shout
7. BirthdY
8 cabaret pop song
Does it three ueDz in row and is class president.

Interpersonally gifted.