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What is Personality?
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the way people differ in their desires, feeling and behavior.
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What are Personality traits?
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are enduring personal characteristics that reveal themselves in a particular patterns and are responsible for them.
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What is social desirability?
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knowing what the questions were getting at and the possibility of biasing or lying on questions.
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What are self-report forms?
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Used for most personality assessments, they can be problematic because we may be influenced by social desirability.
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Who was Walter Mischel?
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he was a social cognitive theorist. IE Social cognitive theory.
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What is the Social Cognitive Theory?
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purports that people learn to behave in a particular ways in particular situations, so that the same person's behavioral style may vary greatly from one setting to another.
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Cross- Situational consistency v.s. Temporal consistency of behavior
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we have a low cross-situational (how you behave in class is not the same as how you behave at a party.
high temporal-situational (over time your bahavior is relatively consistent). |
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What is a reactive variable?
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situation influences behavior: we may perceive a situation as similar to or diff. from some previously experienced situation and acted accordingly.
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What is a evocative variable?
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behavior influences situation: our personality characteristics directly influence the characteristics of situations encountered.
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What is a proactive variable?
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personality influences our active approach/ avoidance of situations:we choose to experience certain types of situations and not others with our personality.
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