Psychology 2550A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Personality Psychology, Gordon Allport, Fundamental Attribution Error
2 Feb 2018
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Some people more likely to behave in friendly manner, some tend to behave more aggressively than others, some often show disagreeable behavior, etc. For every type of behavior, there"s corresponding personal quality that makes person display that behavior more often, or more strongly, than other people ex: helpful (adjective) helpfulness (noun) For any given type of behavior, can hypothesize corresponding personal quality that leads people to enact it. Mischel (1968) challenged field by concluding that although overall cross-situational consistency in behavior was not zero, it was much less than traditional assumption at trait level of analysis. Most challenging when mischel (1968, 1973) suggested findings reflected not just limitations in methods that have been used but also in core assumptions about nature of consistency and coherence in personality. Mischel (1968) book personality and assessment challenged field of personality and generated what bem and allen (1974) called personality paradox data from extensive research indicated low cross-situational consistency of behavior; however, human.
