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| the assessments we make of others in daily lives are more important than any assessment a psychologist can make |
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Only clue to trust.
Can greatly effect opportunities and expectancies. |
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Selection
Evocation
Traits |
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1. Selection:
2. Evocations
3. Traits |
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1. something about your personality brings you to situations
2. something about you brings out a response from your environment (ex, infectious laughter)
3. can lead to situations (selection) that alter reputations (evocation) |
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| aka self-fulfilling prophecies, happens both in intellectual and social domains |
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| If someone expects you to act a certain way, this can lead to... |
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| you acting IN that particular way! |
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| Intellectual Domain: Rosenthal & Jacobsen (1968) |
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gave kids intelligence test, told teachers ( falsely) that some kids (randcom) were "bloomers"
--end of the year: "bloomers" had increased IQ 10+ points |
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Climate: project more warmth to "bloomers"
Feedback: varies depending on correct/incorrect response
Input: teach "bloomers" more things and challenge them
Output: give "bloomers" more opportunities to show what they have learned |
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| Social Domain: Snyder, Tanke & Berscheid (1977) |
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| Male and females talk on phone, false photo shown to male, attractive and not attractive. |
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female CONFORMED to male expectancies
--our behavior around others might be the result of how they EXPECT us to behave |
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| Do Expectancies matter in real life? |
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| they might just magnify slightly or maintain behavioral tendencies, but do happen in real life |
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| What is: reality as a concrete entity does not exist, it is a socially constructed thing in our head ? |
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| Counter to Constructivism |
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| even though there is no way to determine the absolute truth, not all arguments are equally good |
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| Convergent Validation: do all the judges agree? can the judgments predict behavior? |
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| Does your face say anything about your personality? |
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| People things so but most psychologists disagree |
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| Facial Composites (Penton-Voak, 06) |
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| People could accurately judge high and low on extroversion and agreeableness in both men and women of the top and bottom 10 percent of scorers on the big five-- the average composites |
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| also accurately judged men high and low on conscientiousness but not women |
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Moderators of Accuracy
-A Moderator: |
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| something that modifies the existing relationship between two things, it can amplify or decrease the effect of something on another thing |
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How good is the judge?
How good is the target?
How good is the trait?
How good is the information? |
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| highly intelligent and conscientious people (but tend to be good and nearly everything) |
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| The "good" judge is interested in what? |
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| in developing and maintaining interpersonal relationships |
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| someone you can read like a book, stable and consistent across situations |
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| The Good trait? Easiest to spot? Hardest to spot? |
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Extraversion.
Neuroticism. |
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quantity helps, more info leads to more accurate assessments
QUALITY helps even more: the better acquainted the person is with the subject the better the info they will give |
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Work place and the bedroom
had strangers assess them based on one in one study and the other in another using the big 5 traits |
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| strongest consensus for conscientiousness and extraversion, as well as openness |
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Extraversion: not as easy to tell
Neuroticism easier |
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| Renfrow & Gosling (2003) People with certain traits like certain kids of music? |
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openness: reflective/complex music also slightly with intense/rebellious
extraversion & agreeableness: upbeat/conventional, slightly with energetic/rhythmic
Conscientiousness & neuroticism: not strongly associated with any type |
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