Study Guide:

Lecture 1:
Why Study Personality?
The ABCs of Personality/The Psychological Triad (behavior, thoughts, & feelings)
Kluckhohn & Murray’s definition of personality
McAdams & Pals’ “New” Big Five
What are the levels of the “New” Big Five?
How does Kluckhohn & Murray’s definition relate to McAdams & Pals’?
Level 1: Evolution & Human Behavior
Environment of Evolutionary Adaptiveness (EEA)
Other examples

Lecture 2:
What is Personality?
McAdams & Pals
Describe, Explain, Predict
Goals of Personality Psychology
Personality vs Other Areas of Psychology
Why does Personality Matter?
Affect, Behavior, & Cognition
Overlap with Clinical
Conflicts when Studying Personality
Define Objective vs Subjective
Define Person vs Situation
Define Idiographic vs Nomothetic
Explain Personality Adjustment
Basic Personality Approaches
Describe Trait Approach
Describe Other Approaches
Funder’s First Law
Pigeonholing

Lecture 3:
Types of Personality Data (S Data, I Data, L Data, B Data)
Self-Other Knowledge Asymmetry
Advantages and Disadvantages of each type of data
Research Design
Be able to define: Reliability, Validity, and Generalizability
What is the Case Method?
Experimental Method
Correlational Method
How are the experimental and correlation method alike and not alike?

Lecture 4:
Types and examples of personality tests
Omnibus vs. single trait (examples of each)
 Tests based on S vs. B data
Projective tests (Rorschach, Thematic Apperception test, Draw-a-person)
Objective tests
Methods of test construction – Know how each of these work
Rational method
Factor Analytic method
Empirical method
Ethics in Personality Psychology

Lecture 5:
What are the basics of the trait approach
The person-situation debate
1. Situationist arguments
2. Personality counterarguments
Know details correlation coefficients
3. Interactionism
Rank order stability
Know the 3 types of interactionism (person-situation interaction, situations are not
random, & people change situations)
Life outcomes associated with Big 5
Why did situationism get popular?
Why should personality be popular?

Lecture 6:
Consequences of Personality Judgement
Opportunities (e.g. shyness)
Expectancies (e.g. Bloomers study, social expectancies)
Accuracy of Personality Judgement
First impressions (faces)
Details of Moderators of Accuracy (Judge, Target, Trait, Information)

Lecture 7:
Single Trait Approaches
Revisiting Grit
Narcissism
Characteristic Adaptations
Multiple Trait Approaches
California Q-Set
Political Orientation
Essential Trait Approach
Discovery of Big 5
Properties of Big 5
Trait Hierarchy – memorize this!
Big 5 (OCEAN, and what behavior traits are associated with)
Big 5 & Social Media
Typological Approach