Exam 4 Study Guide

List and define the Big Five Traits by Costa and McCrae. 

Openness - high scorers have an active imagination, wide range of feelings, like to learn, and are tolerant

Conscientiousness - high scorers are problem solvers, organized, productive, and think things through

Extraversion - high scorers are friendly, like to be around others, high spirited, and crave excitement

Agreeableness - high scorers are quick to trust, humble, straightforward, and prefer to cooperate over compete

Neuroticism - high scorers are anxious, temperamental, self-conscious, emotional, and vulnerable to stress related disorders

List Buss's personality traits that he considered evolved mechanisms. 

• surgency/extraversion/dominance

  • disposition to experience positive emotional stability to be social learning and self-confident

• agreeableness

  • willingness to help the group

• conscientiousness

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• emotional stability

  • response to danger and threat (fight or flight)

• openness/intellect

To study the relationship between church attendance and prejudice, Allport developed the ——

• Religious Orientation Scale

—— is empirically defined as occurring within an individual and involving a positive attitude change toward a transgressor or particular transgression

• Forgiveness

True or False: Research suggests that our digital footprint predicts our personality

• True

According to Buss, personality traits exist because —-

• they solve problems of survival and reproduction