Week 22 Personality

Question 1

Heterotypic stability

Answer 1

Consistency in the underlying psychological attribute across development regardless of any change In how the attribute is expression at different ages

Question 2

Homotypic stability

Answer 2

Consistency of the exact same thought feelings and behaviours across development

Question 3

Absolute stability

Answer 3

Cinsistench in the level or amount of a personality attribute over time

Question 4

A research design that used a group of individuals with different ages assessed at a single point in time

Answer 4

Cross sectional study

Question 5

A study that follows the same group of individuals over time

Answer 5

Longitudinal study

Question 6

Maturity principle of adult personality

Answer 6

The generalization that personality attributes associated with the successful fulfillment of adult roles increase with age and experience

Question 7

differential stability

Answer 7

consistency in the rank ordering of personality across two or more measurement occasions

Question 8

attrition

Answer 8

a connection between personality attributes and aspects of the environment that occurs because individuals with particular traits drop out from certain environments

Question 9

hostile attribution bias

Answer 9

the tendency of some individuals to interpret ambiguous social cues and interactions as examples of aggressiveness disrespect or antagonism

Question 10

active person environment occurs when

Answer 10

individuals seek out certain kinds of environments and experiences that are consistent with their personality characteristics

Question 11

reactive person environment occurs when

Answer 11

individuals react differently to the same objective situation because of their personality

Question 12

evocative personality occurs when

Answer 12

individuals draw out or evoke certain kinds of responses from their social environment because of their personality attributes

Question 13

heterotypic stability refers to the

Answer 13

psychological coherence of an individuals thoughts feelings and behaviours across development

Question 14

homotypic stability concerns the

Answer 14

amount of similarity between the same observable personality characteristics across time

Question 15

absolute stability concerns

Answer 15

consistency of levels of personality attributes across time

Question 16

validity

Answer 16

evidence related to the interpretation and use of test scores. the ability of a test to predict theoretically relevant outcomes. eg a presumed measure of conscientiousness should be related to academic achievement