PSYCH238 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Big5, Proactivity, Parachuting
3 Apr 2019
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No questions about case studies in textbook. Dont need to know areas of the brain associated with big 5. Person: individuals are predisposed to behave in certain ways. Situation: characteristics of the organizational setting such as rewards influence people"s attitudes and behaviour. Interactionist approach: to predict organizational behaviour, we need to know about an individual"s personality and the work setting, together. Situational strength theory: degree to which situational constraints are present in the environment for what to do and how to do it. Weak situations - roles are loosely defined. There are few rules and weak reinforcement and punishment contingencies. Personality has the strongest effect in weak situations. Strong situation - roles, rules, and contingencies are more defined. Personality has less of an impact in strong situations the theory predicts validness of individual differences in general. O*net rating as indices for situational strength and trait activation. 50-105 studies and >9000 people surveyed per big5 trait.
