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Personality Psych Test 2 (Chapters 4,5,6,7)

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Define and explain the Type approach
It is a person/people-centered approach explaining how each one is fundamentally different/kinds of people (similar to how living things include plants and lizards)
Why is personality important?
research shows that TRAITS affect important life outcomes like health, longevity, and interpersonal and career success
Explain Interactionism
aka the resolution to the person-situation debate. it recognizes that we are all different and respond differently to different things thus situations are affected by the personalities of people who inhabit them
Rosenthal's : Output
teachers presenting students with more Opportunities to show what they learned
Rosenthal's : Input
teachers taught more/difficult material
Rosenthal's : Feedback
feedback they're giving students is more differentiated
Rosenthal's : Climate
teachers warmer disposition to the students that were "bloomers"
Mark Snyder's experiment
He paired college undergraduates (male to female) and showed them fake pictures of attractive/not attractive females and told the male that's who they were talking to. Result: Males who saw the attractive photo, were more likely to have caused the female to respond in a warmer and friendly manner (a version of self-fulfilling prophecy. -it's not a great study because it was done in a lab setting
What is the constructivist philosophy used to argue in the textbook?
determining the accuracy of personality judgements is impossible because we all "construct" our own versions of reality
What argument for judging the accuracy of personality does Funder and Prof.C support?
Critical Realism - gather all of the data you possibly can and draw determinations/conclusions from that (its as close to accurate as you can get because ACCURACY IS UNCERTAIN)
what does it mean when someone says that a judgement has predictive validity?
interjudge agreement and behavioral (empirical facts) agree with each other
What's the main weakness of the Type model?
How distinguish different types?

How do you come up with basic types that characterize the whole range of personality
What's the Barnum Effect?
when something is so vague it can applied to anything (like horoscopes)
Why is the MBTI fake af?
-ANECDTODAL support
-(1/3-1/2) of the studies are funded by the Meyers Briggs Company
-distribution of scores on a scale dont exist as types
What did Carl Jung believe?
there was a collective conscience- we all share universal archetypes of literary characters which later became the basis of the MBTI
The Father of Trait Psych
-Gordon Alport
-1920's
-published personality traits: their classification and measurement
-research falls on the bell curve
= consistent pattern of thoughts, feelings, and actions that distinguish people from one another
trait
Mischel's 3 Arguments against personality
Personality does not predict behavior well

Therefore, situations must be more important

There is no such thing as personality
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