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PSYC 3016 Ch 4
PSYC 3016 Ch 4 & 5
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| interactionism | The principle that aspects of personality and of situations work together to determine behavior; neither has an effect by itself, nor is one more important than the other. |
| constructionism | The philosophical view that reality, as a concrete entity, does not exist and that only ideas (“constructions”) of reality exist. |
| critical realism | The philosophical view that the absence of perfect, infallible criteria for determining the truth does not imply that all interpretations of reality are equally valid; instead, one can use empirical evidence to determine which views are more likely |
| convergent validation | The process of assembling diverse pieces of information that converge on a common conclusion. |
| interjudge agreement | The degree to which two or more people making judgments about the same person provide the same description of that person’s personality. |
| behavioural prediction | The degree to which a judgment or measurement can predict the behavior of the person in question. |
| predictive validity | The degree to which one measure can be used to predict another. |
| moderator | A variable that affects the relationship between two other variables. |
| judgability | The extent to which an individual’s personality can be judged accurately by others. |
| Realistic Accuracy Model | the process of accurate personality judgment describes accuracy as a function of the relevance, availability, detection, and utilization of behavioral cues. |
| false consensus effect | tendency of people to see their own behavior as more common than it really is |
| actor-observer effect | people typically see their own behavior as a response to momentary, situational pressures, whereas they see the behavior of others as consistent and as a product of their personality attributes |
| person-situation debate | controversy about whether individual inconsistencies in behaviour are better explained by differences in either traits or situations. |
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