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PSYB30 - Chapter 4 Flash Cards
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- 1Trait approach to personalityTends to fit with everyday descriptions of people in our lives based on empirical research and individual differences
- 2TraitCharacteristic of a person that makes that person unique.
- 3Challenges to the trait approachPeople are inconsistent, situation can influence behaviour.
- 4The person-situation debateAre all people basically the same and different behaviour is guided by situations?
- 5Three main parts to the situationist argumentPredictability, situationism, common perceptions of people are flawed.
- 6PredictabilityThere is an upper limit to how well one can predict what a person will do based on measurements of personality.
- 7SituationismSituations are more important than personality traits in determining behaviour. They also assume that situations explain everything that personality traits do not.
- 8Fundamental attribution errorTendency to focus on internal factors rather than external factors to explain other's behaviour.
- 9People with high extraversion and low neuroticismMore positive and discount opportunities that are not available.
- 10Physical health and longevityExtraversion, conscientiousness predict longer lives. Low agreeableness predicts poorer health.
- 11PsychopathologyDifferent sets of personality traits are linked to disorders
- 12High openness and low conscientiousnessLinked to substance abuse.
- 13High neuroticismLinked to anxiety disorders - strongest relationship with personality disorders.
- 14High neuroticism and low extraversionLinked to depression
- 15Low agreeableness and low extraversionAssociated with rejected peer status.
- 16ExtraversionPredicts popularity, status and social acceptance.
- 17Neuroticism and low agreeableness in romantic relationshipsPredict negative relationship outcomes.
- 18Conscientiousness and agreeableness in romantic relationshipsPredicts satisfaction.
- 19Extraversion and romantic relationshipsPredicts satisfaction in married couples.
- 20Extraversion and occupationSocial and enterprising interests.
- 21Agreeableness and occupational choiceSocial interests
- 22Openness and occupational choiceInvestigative and artistic interests
- 23Conscientiousness and job performancePredicts good performance in all
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