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the goal of personality psychology is to...


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explain the whole person in his or her daily environment--- its not just how
you think, but its also how you feel and behave




3 ways in which personality and situation interact to produce behavior


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, interdependence

selection


evocation




many trait approach


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examine correlation between one behavior and many traits




What is the relationship between being wrong and being creative? (Hint: this is why
kids are often more creative than adults


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If you're not prepared to be wrong, you won't come up with anything
original. We are educating people out of their creative capacities.




personality dimensions represent...


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continuum--- traditional conceptions of personality usually invoke a
positive and negative end of a continuum

,typological approach to personality


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based on doubt about whether it is valid to compare people quantitatively
on the same trait dimensions

differences between people might be qualitative




method of change--- behaviors and life experiences


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study abroad

military training and community service




If you were to visit public education as an alien, what would you conclude?


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The whole purpose of the school system is to produce a professor.




advantages and disadvantages of b data


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, advantage--- realistic

disadvantage--- desired contexts may not occur often




person-situation led to 2 lasting changes---


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practice of aggregation


focus on person-situation interaction




What are the three important characteristics of intelligence?


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Diverse- we think in abstract terms
Dynamic- interactive, comes from interactions
Distinct--




Personality stability
a. is only affected by genetics
b. increases as people get older--- cumulative contenuity principle
c. is so low that adult behavior cannot be predicted by childhood personality
d. is certainly not affected by birth order


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