Lecture 6

generalization

the currency of everyday trait talk is the __________

instance, behavior

personality generalizations do not apply to every _______ of a person's _________

consistent

no one is perfectly __________ in their traits

individuality

trait talk is a useful and natural way to account for human __________

George

Character from Seinfeld that is highly N and angry

fundamental attribution error

when people attribute their own behavior to situational factors but attribute others' behavior to trait factors

personality

when we are observing, we attribute behaviors to one's _________

situation

when we are the actor, we attribute our behaviors to the
___________

4, roles

study recruited students to take the Big 5 _____ times by placing themselves each time in a different _______: at school, with parents, at work, with friends

80

they discovered that ______ % of variance on trait dimensions was across roles

20

they discovered that only ______ % of variance on trait dimensions was between people

within, between

the _________ person effect is greater than the ________ person effect

friends

you are more likely to act extroverted with your _________

school

you are less likely to act extroverted in _______

school

you are more likely to be neurotic in _________

friends

you are less likely to be neurotic with your _________

work, friends

you are more likely to be agreeable at _____ and with your ______

school, family

you are less likely to be agreeable at _____ and with your ______

work

you are more likely to be conscientious at _______

friends

you are less likely to be conscientious with your ________

behaviors

there is a lot of systematic variation in our _______

structure

introverts do better with ______

chameleon story

prof was accused of being a chameleon by his girlfriend because he was changing behaviors and talking differently depending on who he was with

expressive

people differ meaningfully in the extent to which they can and do engage in ________ control (facial expressions, tone of voice...)

high self-monitors

consummate social pragmatists, willing and able to project images desired by others (same overlap with E)

low self-monitor

not only unwilling but unable to carry off appearances

successful, network

the self-monitoring scale was used to show who will be _________ in expanding their social _________

low, high

study had 5 independent measures of friendliness from 5 different reports.
for high self-monitors: ______ correlation between reports
for low self-monitors: _______ correlation between reports (good agreement)

3

study in which people had to teach a 2 minute lesson about triangles ______ times as a natural, introvert, and extrovert

extrovert

for introverts, high self-monitors were very good at being an ______

not, contact

high self-monitors have many friends but do ____ encourage social ______ among friends

encourage

low self-monitors have fewer friends and _________ social contact among friends

adaptive

self-monitoring is an _______ human tendency

Koreans, network

study about _______ who own grocery stores and if they were able to build a successful ________

more, communities

Koreans who were high self-monitored expanded _______ their network and could bridge easily with other _______

romantic

chameleons change color to find a _________ partner

value

we are more likely to remain consistent on traits we personally ________ or think are pertinent