Exam 4: Personality Traits, Situations, and Behavior

Happiness is associated with what trait?

Individuals high in the trait of extraversion tend to die younger than individuals who are lower in extraversion.

Personality trait measurements are typically made on a(n) ________ scale.

In his book Personality and Assessment, Mischel argued that behavior can be most accurately predicted from ________.

Historically, personality psychologists have concentrated on ________ to evaluate the effects of personality variables, whereas social psychologists have concentrated on ________ to evaluate the effects of situational variables.

The behavioral measurements used in the studies reviewed by Mischel were ________.

One response to Mischel's critique asserts that a fair review of the research on the predictability of behavior from personality traits indicates that ________.

Individuals low on hostility are less likely to evoke laboratory aggression in a competitive game than individuals high on hostility.

Funder strongly believes that Mischel conducted an unfair literature review in Personality and Assessment.

Political liberalism is associated with what trait?

In real life, personality traits and situational features are uncorrelated.

Mischel originally argued that personality coefficients seldom exceed ________, whereas subsequent situationists raised that estimate to ________.

In order to improve personality research, researchers can ________.

Which of the following was NOT a study that Funder and Ozer reviewed in their work calculating the size of the situation coefficient?

Describe the three major aspects of the situationist argument. Explain how trait psychologists responded to this argument.

A fundamental problem for the trait approach is that ________.

Which of the following behaviors would be the easiest to predict accurately?

According to the text, which of the following characteristics is positively associated with personality consistency?

A social psychologist focused on statistical significance is concerned with ________, whereas a personality researcher focused on effect sizes is concerned with ________.

It is possible to directly calculate effect sizes from experimental social psychology using correlational metrics.