Exam 5: Personality Judgment

What is the acquaintanceship effect,and what boundary condition did Colvin and Funder (1991)discover? Provide a clear example to illustrate this boundary condition.

Recent research on the good judge of personality indicated that the good judge was ________.

A salesperson has been married for 10 years,but her husband has never seen her do her job.According to the textbook,which of the following statements is true regarding the accurate prediction of her behavior during her work?

Julie does not like to attend parties because she is shy and convinced that people will not like her.When Julie does go to a party,she avoids eye contact,gives abrupt responses to other people's questions,and quickly withdraws from interactions.As a result,she spends most of the evening in a corner by herself,convinced that no one at the party likes her.This is an example of ________.

Which was NOT one of the areas in which people made reasonably accurate judgments,based only on looking at someone's face?

Which of the following is an example of predictive validity in the context of accuracy judgments?

Match the most applicable stage of the Realistic Accuracy Model with each hypothetical successful or failed judgment. -A good trait is displayed in a range of contexts.

According to the text,________ describes a context where social norms tend to restrict what People do.

Which of the following illustrates converging criteria that could be used to establish the accuracy of a personality judgment?

Imagine that you are at a party,and your best friend introduces you to a guy named David.You and your friend talk to David for an hour,and you both notice the hostile comments that he repeatedly makes about his roommate.Later,you and your friend discuss your impressions of David,and you find that you disagree about him.Your friend thinks that David's comments were just good-natured joking and that he is a nice guy and a pretty funny fellow.You think that his comments were mean-spirited and that he is a hostile person.Your disagreement arises because you and your friend differ in the ________ stage of the Realistic Accuracy Model (RAM)of personality judgment.

Which of the following traits would be hardest to judge?

Match the most applicable stage of the Realistic Accuracy Model with each hypothetical successful or failed judgment. -After a lecture,you are asked to judge the talkativeness of another attendee.

Based on recent research,what approach for job interviews might be the best?

People who enjoy upbeat,conventional music tend to be higher in what trait?

According to evolutionary theory,humans should be able to judge the trait of ________ more accurately than other traits that are less important for the survival of the species.

Match the most applicable stage of the Realistic Accuracy Model with each hypothetical successful or failed judgment. -A friend is revealing important information at a concert,but you fail to hear it.

Participants in a recent study were shown and then asked to judge composite faces from targets who scored extremely low or extremely high on personality dimensions.Which two traits had the highest levels of accuracy for both female and male targets?

The basic reason that research on the accuracy of personality judgments experienced a lengthy hiatus between 1955 and the mid-1980s was that ________.

What is a moderator variable? Identify the four moderators of accuracy detailed in the text,and provide clear examples for each moderator.

The finding that more observable traits yield better interjudge agreement suggests that peer judgment is based more on ________ than on ________.