PSYC 2800 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Conscientiousness, Agreeableness, Extraversion And Introversion

• School: Fordham University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2800
• Professor: Roberta Willim

Document Summary

Stabilizing influence of traits on behavior over time and place. Behavior is expected to be relatively consistent. Early research indicating that personality measures of morality and punctuality correlated weakly with related behaviors of the traits. Hartshorne & may (1928): cross-situational correlation of moral behavior = +0. 30. Dudycha (1936): cross-situational correlation of punctuality = +0. 19. Personality coefficient of r = . 20 to 30 summarizing the typical finding in research involving trait measures to predict other trait measures and observable behaviors. Showed that trait-behavior relationships are influenced by one"s consistency for the trait . Cross- situational correlation for highly predictable people ranged from +0. 45 to +0. 57 while correlations for unpredictable people ranged from +0. 09 to. Personality coefficient- correlation of around r=. 20 and . 40 that is found whenever attempts have been made to correlate a measure of a trait. Proposes that certain characteristics of the situation dictate what are acceptable or possible forms of behavior in a given situation.