Part 1 (Chapter 3 materials)
Eysenck’s Hierarchical Model of Personality.
1. Using your textbook as a resource, summarize this model of personality. You reflected on this model for your textbook reflections for this week.
2. Identify and briefly discuss each of the three super traits included in the model.
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3. Now, conduct a search on the Internet and identify one article (from the last five years, 2017 and forward) that investigates one or more of these super-traits. Summarize the results from this research study.
Part 2 (Chapter 4 materials)
Trait Consistency, but Behavioral Variability
1. Before beginning Part 2 of the lab, look at the lab title. Describe what that title means to you. To do before going forward with the lab. I am looking for your first impressions of what the title means to you. Use the space below. Just type below!
Now, the lab.
Instructions: Larsen and Buss, your textbook authors, note that, although a trait might be consistent over time, how it manifests itself in actual behavior might change substantially. Consider the trait of disagreeableness. As a child, a highly disagreeable person might be prone to temper tantrums and fits of breath holding, fist pounding, and undirected rage (I had a kid like this!). As an adult, a disagreeable person might be difficult to get along with, and hence might have trouble sustaining interpersonal relationships and holding down a job (he is no longer disagreeable!). In the spaces given below, provide three additional examples (different from disagreeableness) of behavioral variability generated by the same underlying traits operating at two different points in an individual’s lifetime. Choose three personality traits you might use to describe another person. What are these traits?
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Example 1: Trait a=
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b. Behaviors associated with a developmental period (identify a second time of life= ___________________)
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b. Behaviors associated with a developmental period (identify a second time of life=________________)
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Part 3 (Chapter 5 materials)
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Hobbies in Junior High School (Middle School) and Today
Instructions: In the spaces provided below, first write down five hobbies that you most enjoyed during junior high school (middle school), or five ways you most enjoyed spending your free time during junior high school (middle school). Professor Getz would write sports, reading, going to the mall with friends, watching television/movies with family, family events. Then, write down five hobbies that you most enjoy today, or five ways you most enjoy spending your free time today. Professor Getz would write spending time with family, gardening, reading, artwork, execising. Place your response in the space labelled Hobby/activity=.
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2. Now, look at your lists. Identify personality traits that might underlie or are expressed in these hobbies/activities. Place your response in the space labelled Traits=
3. Comment on whether fundamentally different personality traits underlie or are expressed in the hobbies you enjoy today and those you enjoyed in junior high school (middle school). Remember the discussion on dormant traits!
4. Which key concept from Chapter 5 may be captured through the analyses you have done examining the relationship between your hobbies/activities and personality traits? Why did you select this concept?
TEXTBOOK: Larsen, R., & Buss, D.M. (2021). Personality psychology: Domains of
knowledge about human nature. 7th edition. New York, NY: McGraw Hill Education.
