Chapter 18 Student Resources


Flashcards

Key Terms

Social desirability bias

producing inaccurate socially desirable answers on questionnaires.

Bogus pipeline

a sham lie detector used to elicit honest answers when individuals complete personality questionnaires.

Traits

aspects or dimensions of personality that exhibit individual differences and are moderately stable over time; they have direct and indirect influences on behaviour.

Lexical hypothesis

the assumption that dictionaries contain words that refer to all of the most important personality traits

Self-efficacy

The beliefs about being able to perform a task (or range of tasks) to achieve certain goals.

Self-regulation

the notion that individuals learn to reward and punish themselves internally to regulate their own behaviour and achieve desired outcomes.