Study frågor 5 situational

Question 1

What is a situational perspective on personality

Answer 1

That we don’t really have a set personality but that we have different personality in different situations. Your not the same in all situations.

Question 2

What was Mischel’s critique towards broad personality traits

Answer 2

he doesn’t think that a person acts in a consistent way across different situations. That you have underlying personal traits is a myth. A individuals behaviour is highly dependent upon the situation. So the individual behaviour that you call your personality because its unique its actually just the affect of a situation and it will change when you are in another situation and so on. That behaviour is shape largly by the given situation

Question 3

Sometimes, the power of the situation is overwhelming! What does that mean?

Answer 3

Okey so what the power of the situation means is that sometimes personality can predict someone’s behaviour, but in some cases when the situations powerful personality is a shit indicator of how a person will act. If we take the fire exempla, its burning in the building , that situation is very powerful and in these cases it hard to predict how someone is going to act based on the persons personality, the most cool and calm person can freak out and behave very differently. So in overwhelming situations rationall people can act irrational and it has with the situation to do and not the personality.

Question 4

What are mirror neurons?
How do they function?
Why are they important for social behavior?

Answer 4

1. Mirrro nerouns is brain cells that react in the same way when they for example se see something dangerous and when they see a person act like they seen something dangerous.

2.. Some people are more sensitive to situations while others are more independent. What it is more or less is you imitating a person you see without even knowing it.
They think that we have mirror neurons because we have to interact and be social with others

Question 5

Longitudinal studies are important for the understanding of human behavior. What could we learn from such studies that we cannot learn from cross sectional studies

Answer 5

Longitudinal studies follow the human behaviour for a longer period of time which is great because we can see how we change over time while

cross sectional studies don’t look at the changes over time they look more a cross the population once, no long-term effects or long-term changes

Question 6

Describe some methodological difficulties with longitudinal studies

Answer 6

1. is securing research funding
2. keep track of the people the studies
3. changes over time o what’s ethical and moral to do or what measure or methods to use
4. if someone loses interest and doesn’t want to be a part