Psychology 2550A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Personnel Selection, Fundamental Attribution Error, Situationist International

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2550A/B
• Professor: David Vollick

Document Summary

Individual differences in behavior tendencies: some people exhibit friendliness more often than others, similarly, some exhibit aggressiveness, disagreeableness, or other qualities that comprise various individual differences. 1968 challenge: mischel (1968, 1973) argued that these findings reflected limitations not just in methods but also in core assumptions about consistency and coherence in personality theory. Personality paradox: mischel believed low cross-situational consistency due to poor methodology and incorrect assumption about personality, long person vs. situation debate followed. Individuals often exhibit consistent behaviors w/in distinct situations in stable patterns creating behavioral signatures of personality: study: children in 6 months summer camp stable if then relationships, evidence for signatures indicative of personality types. Jan 15th: two brothers" behavioral signatures even brothers exhibit different if, then behavioral signatures. Two types of consistency: type 1 average overall levels of behavior tendencies; best measured using aggregation methods, type 2 if then (situation-behavior) signatures.