PSYC 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Social Learning Theory, Epigenetics, Extraversion And Introversion

• School: UBC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 102
• Professor: Tanya Salamander

Document Summary

Thin slicing: just through a photograph, to what degree can you judge a person"s personality accurately. We are generally good at judging based on little information. Thin slicing of teacher effectiveness: rating of instructor in a 2 second video clip and rating of teacher after entire semester; correlation of r=0. 54, p<0. 001. Sam gosling; personal living spaces: those with tidier rooms are more organized, messier rooms were more social, extroverted. What are your top 10 songs: those with more pop songs and those with more contemporary jazz. Do we present our ideal or accurate self online: true-self is presented online, correlated with most of the big 5 personality. Each of the 5 traits are partially inherited, about 40% A lot of room for environment and experience to come into play. Reciprocal determinism: personality predicts environments and people we choose and how we interpret those environments: can reinforce and exaggerate personality.