Week 3, Monday Lecture Outline
- I. Key aspects of personality
- II. Variables of personality
- III. Relating personality to behavior
- IV. Ethics of personality evaluation
- Uniqueness:
- dispositions make you special
- Consistency:
- your dispositions are enduring
- Traits:
- stable patterns of behavior over time
- Motives:
- stable patterns of goals and needs over time
- Cognitions:
- Claim:
- your dispositions determine your behaviors
- Organizational goal:
- to know which dispositions produce desirable behaviors
- Debate:
- what determines behavior? Personality dispositions or organizational characteristics?
- Jerry:
- low on neuroticism, high on extraversion
- George:
- high on neuroticism, low on agreeableness, low on conscientiousness
- Kramer:
- high on neuroticism, low on conscientiousness, high on openness to experience
- Elaine:
- Tests:
- objective (NEO-PI)
- projective (TAT)
- Two issues:
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