ANTHROP 3HI3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Level Of Measurement, Trait Theory, Consistency
22 Feb 2018
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Chapter 4 personality traits, situations, and behavior. Someone may be shy in one situation and dominant in another. Casual observation is sufficient to confirm that personality traits are not the: this is because situations vary according to the people who are, trait approach neglects (a) and (c) and focuses on (b) People are inconsistent present and the implicit rules that apply. If situations are so important, how important is personality: not very, there is a possibility that traits do not exist and people continually change who they are according to the situation, and that everybody is basically the same. Mischel argued that behavior is too inconsistent from one situation to the next to allow individual differences to be characterized accurately in terms of broad personality traits. The trait words used to describe people are not legitimately descriptive in all situations. People who believe personality is important commit the (cid:498)fundamental attribution error(cid:499)
