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Theories Of Personality (PPE 4003)
University of West Florida
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Perspectives on Personality: Predicting Personality Traits
After watching the video, answer the following questions:
- How easily did people identify their own and others’ personality traits?
They were all able to quickly identify their own and other people's characteristics.
- What were some of the common, and distinctive, personality traits that they identified among themselves?
Honesty, compassion, and hard effort were the most prevalent characteristics, whereas curiosity, stubbornness, bluntness, emotion, and vigor were the distinguishing characteristics.
- Were you surprised (or not?) about the accuracy of their predictions regarding one another’s personality traits, and how come?
No, because people are often easy to read
- Consider the range of personality traits that are discussed in these chapters on Trait Approaches in your book. Can you identify any of them among the characteristics discussed by the individuals in these videos? If so, which ones?
You can easily identify all the different personality traits amongst them.
- Indicate which person in this video you think might be the HIGHEST in relation to each of the following traits discussed in the book?
Neuroticism_________Taylor___________
Extraversion________Kendra & Taylor___________
Openness___________Kendra____________
Agreeableness _Sarah
Conscientiousness_______Sarah__________
Achievement Motivation All Participants
Social Anxiety Sarah & Denis___
Emotional Affectivity_____Kendra & Sarah______
Optimism ________All Participants ___________
- What, if anything, have you learned from this exercise?
Traits are a way for others to get a sense of those we are based only on what we show them about ourselves.
Perspectives 6-Pointer
Course: Theories Of Personality (PPE 4003)
University: University of West Florida
