PSYC 333 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Startle Response, Observational Error, Woodworking

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 333
• Professor: Arash Abizadeh

Document Summary

Walter mischel"s 1968 review showed low correlation between the traits we measured in people and the ability of the self-report measures to predict someone"s behaviour in future situations. Mischel became a defender of personality research in subsequent years. Cognitive-affective system theory of personality mischel, shoda & wright, 1994. Tried to find ways which we can see regularities amidst the randomness that have been observed in prior research. Mischel observed that cross situational consistency is low: 0. 16. He believed that while general cross situational consistency between someone"s traits and their behaviour is quite low, people"s specific reactions to specific situations were reliable and predictable. Bam & allan: recommended a more ideographic approach to personality (studying the spcifics of the individual and what really matters to them; not all traits are applicable to all individuals in all situations). Focuses on the specifics of the person.