PSYCH 2B03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Trait Theory, Personality Psychology, Everyman
18 Mar 2013
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Stability increases with age: 30 year olds are more stable across time than children and adolescents, people between. Are common, ordinary intuitions about people fundamentally flawed or basically correct? (given that we use personality trait terms all day long) The situationist arguments has 3 parts: there"s an upper limit to how well you can predict behaviour based on the traits (and this limit is low) Trait words used are not legit and people tend to see others as being more consistent than they really are. S and b- ability of trait judgements to predict behaviour. I and b- - ability of trait judgements to predict behaviour. B and b- consistency of behavior across situations (e. g. if you"re sociable at party a, will you also be in another situation) These results had huge influences since the upper limit of 0. 4 is low.
