PSY230H5 Lecture Notes - Trait Theory, Walter Mischel, Femininity

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Differences among individuals in a typical tendency to behave, think, or feel in some conceptually related ways, across a variety of relevant situations and across some fairly long period of time. Likelihood of showing some behaviours or having some thoughts or feelings (typical tendency) Trait is expressed by various behaviours, thoughts, feelings that appear to have some common physiological cause (conceptually related) Personality trait not just a habit confined to one spec situation; rather shown across a variety of settings in which ppl differ in the ways that the trait is expressed (across a variety of relevant situations) Pattern can be observed over the long run (fairly long period of time) trait: there is some reasonably stable, long lasting tendency to show the relevant pattern of behaviours. Mental abilities (verbal, mathematical) diff from personality trait represent one"s max level of performance on one task vs way of thinking, behaving, feeling.

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28. A father believes that certain behaviours are more appropriate for boys than for girls. His wife has heard him share these beliefs and she wonders whether they are partly responsible for the fact that he relates differently to his son, with whom he tends to use more verbal and physical prohibition than he does with his daughter. In this example, the father's beliefs would be examples of , while the fact that he treats his children differently depending on their gender demonstrates the concept of A) gender identities, gender constancies B) sex-role stereotypes; gender preferences C) sex-role stereotypes; sex typing D) gender identities; sex typing E) gender identities; gender behaviour

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