PSYCH 2B03 Study Guide - Final Guide: Trait Theory, Conscientiousness, Job Performance
15 Dec 2013
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Chapter 4 personality traits, situations, and behaviours. Ultimate criterion for any measurement of a personality trait is whether it can predict behaviour. Focuses exclusively on individual differences: measures degree to which a person might be more or less dominant, sociable, etc. than someone else. The measurement of individual differences (ordinal, instead of ratio scales) Personality traits aren"t the only factors that control an individual"s behaviour (situation: situations vary according to the people who are present and the implicit rules that apply. Mischel argued that behaviour is too inconsistent from one situation to the next to allow individual differences to be characterized accurately in terms of broad traits. The situationist argument: predictive capacity of personality traits is severely limited: mischel compared s and b data, i and b data, and b data with other b data. Mostly performed in laboratory settings, not natural situations.
