Personality and Learning

Question 1

What is Personality?

Answer 1

a relatively stable set of psychological characteristics that influences how a person interacts with his or her environment
This includes:
Characteristic patterns such as feelings, and thought
Individual differences such as genetics
Stability such across situations

Question 2

What are the 3 personality theories?

Answer 2

Psychodynamic
Traits
Learning

Question 3

what is psychodynamic paradigm?

Answer 3

It is based on motive forces 
Based on frauds structure of personality:
-The Id (pleasure principle)
-The ego (reality)
-The superego (morality)

Personality development

• oral stage (id)
• anal stage 3m-3y (ego)
• phallic stage 3y-6-y (superego)

If the development of these phases were disrupted they build defense mechanisms

Question 4

What is a Trait Paradigm?

Answer 4

Based on descriptions that characterize a person

Based on the five-factor model (“Big 5”)

Question 5

Issues with the MBTI?

Answer 5

• Reliability
• Criterion - related validity
  Dont predict work related outcomes
• Construct validity
  Lack of comprehensiveness
• Categorization or traits

Question 6

How does Personality affect work-related outcomes?

Answer 6

Extraversion and agreeableness

• good predictors of team-based work performance
• good predictors of a leadership style that leads to increased commitment

Openness to Experience
- good predictor of creative achievement

too outgoing is fucking awful

Question 7

What is learning

Answer 7

Classical conditioning -pavlov's dog 
food -> wet 
bell - > nothing 
bell + food -> wet 
bell -> wet 
Adding a stimulus aka +ve or -ve reinforcement