CAS PS 251 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Conscientiousness, Psychoticism, Substance Abuse
9 Aug 2018
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Chapter 7: Using Personality Traits to Understand Behavior
Whats the point of measuring traits?
Traits predict behavior
Traits can be used to understand behavior
Research Methods Used to connect trait with Behavior
Single-trait approach
o What do people with a certain personality trait do?
o Examine correlations between one trait and many behaviors
o Self-monitoring
It’s not necessarily better to be high or low
o What types of jobs would be good for high self monitors?
High self-mons are better at communicating
Paying attention to what is happening around
themselves with other people, confirm more
High self-mon lie more to get dates
Actors score higher, mental illness ppl score lower
High self mon- good at managerial occupations
Advisors, ppl dealing with a lof of different type of
people
o Achievement Motivation
Desire to ‘accomplish something difficult; attain a high
standard’
o High achievement motivation characteristics
Are moderate risk takers
Motivated to succeed, but motivated to avoid
failure so do not take high risks
Do not work hard in everything, direct their
efforts, pick and chose what makes the most
sense to put their time and effort into
Like personal responsibility- take on jobs that
have that
Want credit for their successes
Will take their failures as well
Document Summary
Chapter 7: using personality traits to understand behavior. Traits can be used to understand behavior. Research methods used to connect trait with behavior. Single-trait approach: what do people with a certain personality trait do, examine correlations between one trait and many behaviors, self-monitoring. Paying attention to what is happening around themselves with other people, confirm more. High self-mon lie more to get dates. Actors score higher, mental illness ppl score lower. High self mon- good at managerial occupations. Advisors, ppl dealing with a lof of different type of people: achievement motivation. Desire to accomplish something difficult; attain a high standard": high achievement motivation characteristics. Motivated to succeed, but motivated to avoid failure so do not take high risks. Do not work hard in everything, direct their efforts, pick and chose what makes the most sense to put their time and effort into. Like personal responsibility- take on jobs that have that.
