Psychology 2550A/B Chapter Notes -Entrepreneurship, Personnel Selection

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2550A/B
• Professor: James M Olson

Document Summary

For any given type of behaviour, one can hypothesize a corresponding personal quality that leads people to enact it. People differ in their personality characteristics, and many if not all of such characteristics do take the form of xxx -ness, where xxx refers to a type of behaviour. If in one situation a person displays more of behaviour x than other people, then we expect her, in other situations as well, to display more of that behaviour than other people. Cross-situational consistency - the individual"s consistency across different types of situations. Intense reaction when mischel challenged the field by concluding that although overall cross -situational consistnecy was not zero, it was much less than has been assumed traditionally at the trait level of analysis. Most disturbing: he suggested that these findings reflected not just limitations in the methods that have been used but also in the core assumptions about the nature of consistency and coherence in personality.