PSYC 333 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Nomothetic, Walter Mischel, Donald H. Peterson
11 Mar 2013
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The search for personal consistency: the last three chapters primarily dealt with people overlooking or to make insuf cient allowance for situational in uences when being called upon to interpret the events that unfold around them. They account for past actions and outcomes, and make predictions about future actions and outcomes, in terms of the person - more speci cally, in terms of presumed personality traits or other distinctive and enduring personal dispositions. It seems obvious to any observer, theorist as well as layperson that people differ in their responses and in their underlying personalities. Attributes seem to form distinctive, organized clusters so that it is reasonable to talk about extroverts, sociopaths, authoritarians, mama"s boys, and countless other personality types": experience and intuition encourage us to see a basis for individual differences. Thus, under the broad rubric of extroversion would be found the traits of talkativeness (vs.
