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

Accuracy in personality judgment fails only when there are breakdowns in at least two of the stages in the Realistic Accuracy Model.

Describe why everyday judgments of personality are important. Describe consequences in the interpersonal domain as well as the achievement-related domain of work or school.

According to Lee Jussim (1991), the source of real-life expectancies is likely ________.

About 1 person in ________ considers himself or herself to be chronically shy.

A good judge of personality seems to be high in ________.

Which of the following illustrates converging criteria that could be used to establish the accuracy of a personality judgment?

Imagine that you are at a party and your best friend introduces you to a guy named David. You and your friend talk to David for an hour, and you both notice the hostile comments that he repeatedly makes about his roommate. Later, you and your friend discuss your impressions of David, and you find that you disagree about him. Your friend thinks that David's comments were just good-natured joking and that he is a nice guy and a pretty funny fellow. You think that his comments were mean-spirited and that he is a hostile person. Your disagreement arises because you and your friend differ in the ________ stage of the RAM model of personality judgment.

What might be an effect of expectancies in real life?

Describe the four steps of the Realistic Accuracy Model. Apply those steps to the accurate judgment of the trait of honesty.

It is possible to evaluate personality judgments by acquaintances in basically the same ways that all personality tests are evaluated.

Judgability seems to be one indicator of psychological adjustment.

Which of the following is NOT considered one of the likely reasons that high-expectancy students perform better?

Which of the following was NOT mentioned in the textbook as a potential moderator of accuracy?

According to research that shows a link between a trait's observability and the accuracy with which it is judged, which of the following traits would be easiest to judge accurately?

Self-fulfilling prophecies are more technically known as ________.

Based on recent research, what approach for job interviews might be the best?

Early research on the good judge of personality indicated that the good judge was ________.

What does recent research suggest about the validity of first impressions?

Which of the following attributes seem to be consistently related to being a good judge of personality?

A strong handshake is a reliable indicator of honesty.