Exam 6: Personality Assessment Ii: Personality Judgment in Daily Life

Which of the following is an aspect of the "good" trait?

Participants in a recent study were shown and then asked to judge composite faces from targets who scored extremely low or extremely high on personality dimensions. Which two traits had the highest levels of accuracy for both female and male targets?

Imagine that judgments of extraversion made on the first day of college correlate with the number of parties that students attend over the course of their four years of college. Researchers would therefore say that these judgments have ________.

The finding that more observable traits yield better interjudge agreement suggests that peer judgment is based more on ________ than on ________.

A problem for shy people is that other people also see them as shy and try to avoid them.

What is constructivism, and why does this philosophy preclude the evaluation of the accuracy of personality judgments? Describe the critical realist alternative to this point of view. How does this perspective enable research concerning the accuracy of personality judgments?

According to evolutionary theory, humans should be able to judge the trait of ________ more accurately than other traits that are less important for the survival of the species.

A(n) ________ condition refers to a limit on the generalizability of a particular research conclusion.

Robert is a stable, well-adjusted person. His behavior is fairly consistent and predictable; essentially, "what you see is what you get." Robert would most likely be ________.

The judgments other people make of your personality may affect ________.

Behavioral coherence is associated with being a good target for personality judgment.

Which of the following is the strongest situation using the psychological definition of a strong situation?

Convergent validation is seldom an effective tool for evaluating personality judgments.

When Andrew argues there is no reason to conclude that all interpretations of reality are equally correct, he is advocating the ________ philosophical position.

According to the text, if peers based judgments on reputation and not observation, then researchers should find ________.

Judgments other people make of your personality are known as ________.

Judgments of your personality by others ________.

Experiments concerning social expectancies seldom investigate the origins of real-life expectancies.

Doug has known Dan for more than 20 years. Jim has only known Dan since he joined Jim's department at Acme Advertising Agency 2 months ago. According to Colvin and Funder's (1991) study of the boundaries on the acquaintanceship effect, if both Doug and Jim are asked to predict how Dan will behave during a presentation at work next week, whose predictions will be more accurate?

Research on expectancy effects has provided a clear estimate of the size of the effect in real life.