PSYCH 2B03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Situationist International, Trait Theory, Extraversion And Introversion
18 Jan 2019
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Chapter 4: personality traits, situations and behaviour: psychologists who follow a trait approach begin with common sense and ordinary words, base scientific measurement of individual differences on familiar concepts such as sociability, reliability, dominance, nervousness, and cheerfulness. The trait approach: relies on correlational designs. Focuses exclusively on individual differences: does not attempt to measure how dominant, sociable, or nervous anybody is in an absolute sense; there is no zero points on any dominance scale. Seeks to measure the degree to which a person might be more or less dominant etc: made in ordinal rather than ratio scales. Be numerous exceptions, such has depending who she is with etc: casual observation, therefore, is sufficient to confirm that personality traits are not the only factors that control an. Individuals behaviour; situations matter as well: because situations vary according to the people present and the implicit rules that apply. Studies suggest that consistency of personality is associated with maturity.
