Personality Exam 3

Component or distuingshing characterisitc of an individual that is stable across time and external situations

4 elements that traits have in common

General attitudes do correlate with general ______ but that spefici behaviors do not show a high correlation with specific _____

Whether based on the noblest ideas or the basest prejudices, often melt before the percieved requirements of spefic social sitautions

Are universally used to describe and explain the behavior of others they are part of everyones implicit or understated personality theory

We are motivated to see people more consistent than they really are because we need to understand others for our own social and economic survival

If we see people behave in a particular situation and we attriubute that behavior to their traits we will think we have learned something about them and can predict their behvaior in the future

Built in tendency for humans to overestimate the importance of internal dispositions and underestimate the contribution of thta spefic situation in explaining the behavior of others

Whenit comes to our behavior we attribute it to sitautional or external causes

_____ argued that individuals behaviors are too inconsistent across situations to allow categorization of triats which is called?

Defines the direction and the strength of the relationship between two random variables

What can the correlation coefficant range from

Gives the percentage of variation in one variable that is explained by the variation in another variable/ squaring the coefficant

Have claimed that correlations between traits and behaviors, and behaviors across sitattions cannot be expected to exceed a correlation of?

Squaring the coefficant of determination/ gives the percentage of variation in one variable