PSYC 1115 Lecture Notes - Reticular Formation, Walter Mischel, Content Validity
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Characteristic ways of thinking, acting, and feeling. The big five: openness, conscientious, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism (ocean) Loud music; extraverts set volume higher, introverts hearts beat faster. Big five factor is the current consensus. Cross species investigation of this [dogs, hyenas, monkeys] Other models do a better job measuring personality [aka content validity] 1968: personality and assessment book by walter mischel. He said personality doesn"t matter when it comes to behaviour; all based on situation. Personality traits predict long term behaviour, but over the long term. So, punctuality across the semester rather than one day. Broad traits predict broad behaviors, narrow traits predict narrow behaviours. So, conscientiousness leads to academic punctuality which means showing up for class on time. People may differ in how they behave across situations but are consistent relative to other people. So, they will always be more extraverted/introverted, but both vary. Personality traits are shown to be stable over long periods of time.
