PPE 3003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Walter Mischel, Nancy Chodorow, Longitudinal Study

• School: University of Florida
• Department: Psychology In Personality
• Course: PPE 3003
• Professor: Heesacker Martin

Document Summary

Michels critique of personality: correlations of behavior with personality are generally . 30 or less. Assume a simple of personality behavior relations. Assumes that a correlation of . 30 is small. Trait measures are not perfectly reliabl: situations. Situation activate thoughts and emotions that were developed from prior experience with that situation. A persons ability to generate diverse behaviors under appropriate conditions. Schmas used to process and encode information. Characteristics enables one to judge an entity in isolation, disregarding background influences. In social situations, this person acts independently of the actions of others. Characteristic enables one to judge an entity in its context,attending to backgroud influences. Low self monitors: less sensitive to the reactions and expectations of others. More sensitive to the social infleunces that vary across situations. We seek situations that reinforce our self conception. This makes our social environments and self concepts seem more stable than they really are.