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Flashcards by andreaarose, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by andreaarose
almost 12 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Trait approach to personality | Tends to fit with everyday descriptions of people in our lives based on empirical research and individual differences |
| Trait | Characteristic of a person that makes that person unique. |
| Challenges to the trait approach | People are inconsistent, situation can influence behaviour. |
| The person-situation debate | Are all people basically the same and different behaviour is guided by situations? |
| Three main parts to the situationist argument | Predictability, situationism, common perceptions of people are flawed. |
| Predictability | There is an upper limit to how well one can predict what a person will do based on measurements of personality. |
| Situationism | Situations are more important than personality traits in determining behaviour. They also assume that situations explain everything that personality traits do not. |
| Fundamental attribution error | Tendency to focus on internal factors rather than external factors to explain other's behaviour. |
| People with high extraversion and low neuroticism | More positive and discount opportunities that are not available. |
| Physical health and longevity | Extraversion, conscientiousness predict longer lives. Low agreeableness predicts poorer health. |
| Psychopathology | Different sets of personality traits are linked to disorders |
| High openness and low conscientiousness | Linked to substance abuse. |
| High neuroticism | Linked to anxiety disorders - strongest relationship with personality disorders. |
| High neuroticism and low extraversion | Linked to depression |
| Low agreeableness and low extraversion | Associated with rejected peer status. |
| Extraversion | Predicts popularity, status and social acceptance. |
| Neuroticism and low agreeableness in romantic relationships | Predict negative relationship outcomes. |
| Conscientiousness and agreeableness in romantic relationships | Predicts satisfaction. |
| Extraversion and romantic relationships | Predicts satisfaction in married couples. |
| Extraversion and occupation | Social and enterprising interests. |
| Agreeableness and occupational choice | Social interests |
| Openness and occupational choice | Investigative and artistic interests |
| Conscientiousness and job performance | Predicts good performance in all |
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