Week 3 Flashcards
True or False
Social desire ability undermines agreeabless?
False, even if ppl are told agreeableness bad they seek it out.
What are the origins of agreeableness and where does it developed from?
Temperamental: effort ful (self) control, higher more agreeable.
Genetic
Gender: femAles more agreeable
Culture: big differences, also great variability within countries like us. Taiwan.
Life experience, pro social parents do not undermine agreeableness, they promote it.
Social role, parents more agreeable.
Benefits to agreeabless are?
Fulfilling innate need to belong,
Promoting harmonious relationships including within group outside group harmony
More advantages of being agreeable…
Stronger better healthier rela.
A imp. As neuroticism in understanding romantic relations. Ppl look for kindness in partner, lead to less negative behaviour over long run.
more agreeable they appeared to be more willing toinvest in the relationship, to please their partners, increased commitment.
But, moresexual partners if at either end of agreeableness. Agreeableness is contagious and better for parenting.
Agreeableness and performance
Success!
Young do better in school if agreeable,
More accepting of group diversity.
Note However, that negative attitudes toward diversity were actually related to higher-quality ideasin relatively homogeneous groups. Though not good for brainstorming.
Agreeableness and forgiveness
Associated with greater well being, agreeable forgive and seek forgiveness.
Apart from interpersonal rela. And job performance, agreeableness also predicts?
Health outcomes, mental and physical and problems are internalized and externalizer appropriately. More positive interactions, more healthy choices, less stress overall perhaps.
Ice ppl article sakes that there are two myths that agreeable are subject to.
Doormats and Ashly influences. Not true
They speculate that agreeable people will not be upset by the fact that someone opposes them. Rather, theywill be upset when others use more destructive resolution tactics.
Agreeable individuals prefer to cooperate but will adjust their behavior to match the demands of the situation. And therefore compete if necessary.
Heavy drinkers, connection to social cues and influence, poor study though.
According to The agreeableness article we read, Agreeableness is only good if_________otherwise____________?
You have personal agency, otherwise unmitigated communion is maladaptive.
Person centered approach to agreeableness sees three categories
resilient, overcontrolled, and undercontrolled
Resilliant most agreeable.
Behaving out of character. Give Seinfeld example
Geaorge, neurotic, talk to girl. What does this mean.
What is Koestner’s chameleon story?
Richard Getaway weekend.
Romantic
First date in grad school 23
Ithaca
Football game opinionated loud uncouth brought up.
Ppl vary though. So I change based on ppl. U are a chameleon.
Maybe he is. He said yes you are right pRents only seventh grade education and had to balance heritage with where I got high in education. She bought it.
How consistent are traits really across situations
In reality most only correlate .3
Just moderate. Some ppl argue not good at all. Punctuality suptuxy used as example and Walter Mischel quote.
Who said There is a discrepancy between our
intuitions, which tell us that people doin fact display pervasive cross-
situational consistencies in their
behavior, and the vast empirical
literature, which tells us that they do
not.” Brilliantly identifying the problem with traits?
Darryl Bem (1974)
Reasons to doubt intuitive stability of traits?
Evidence of implicit personality
theories;
o Evidence of attributional bias;
o Mistaken belief about how extensively we observe people we know;
o Our language entices us to think in
trait terms.
We often undervalue situations and are Biased by traits.
Imp. Important|
Judgements about ppl we meet assumed on a lot of behaviours. We see ppl in restricted range of settings. Works as a speech therapist wife. Never seen her working. Or alone with friends. Possible seen them only in narrow range.
Graduate school holiday best friend.
He had annoying habits. Did not really know someone.
What was Koestner’s theory of girlfriend”s mistaken intuition of
Theory girlfriend well educated good in school means cultured person professorial manner in al situations.
First impressions of Koestner Articulate educated. Personality theories fill in blank. Quick initial jusdgment. Did not realize may act otherwise in different situations.
What is the difference between a moderator and a mediator?
Moderator. Changes relationship to another variable.
Mediator. Comes between variable. Religious belief. Lead better functioning. mediatior is self control. Which is higher leading to better outxomes.
People will only show consistancy in traits that are?
Personally relevant and meaningful in other words, a moderator that is schematic.
What traits are most personally relevant and meaningful to Koestner?
Agreeableness and introversion.
