PSY 111 Lecture Notes - Gordon Allport, Eharmony, Extraversion And Introversion
7 Aug 2013
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Providing feedback in class to 10 students. Students rated feedback on 1-5 (often rated 4s and 5s) Explanation: items generally tend to be favorable, and have high base rates (true of most people) Barnum effect you can easily fool people by using general statements. Gordon allport: found that there were 18,000 personality traits (but some are synonyms, had students describe someone in a paragraph. 7 +/- 2 is the capacity of short-term memory. The big 5 (oceans: openness to experience. Responsible to undependable: extraversion (to introversion) First among equals (it is pretty much impossible to hide your level of extraversion) Research suggests that this is the trait with the largest genetic component: agreeableness. Can be used to describe individuals who are normal and those with disorders. We tend to use traits that follow the big five in describing those we know. eharmony uses the big 5 to match people. Job performance: high conscientiousness, low in neuroticism, high in agreeableness.
