1. Explain what the person-situation debate was. Where does each of the articles of (Person-situation debate by fleeson, Situation-Behavior by Walter Mischel and Stability of Personality by Robert Mccrae )in the section come down on this issue?

2. How do McCrae & Costa differ from Mischel and colleagues in their solution to the dilemma of describing both stability and change in personality? Under what circumstances are one or the other a more useful way to approach personality. Try to give concrete examples.

3. Putting together what you have read thus far, how would you answer a friend who wants to know what the chances of implementing a New Year's resolution to change a problematic aspect of his or her personality would be? That is, given what you have learned from these papers about the stability/variability of personality, how easy or difficult would it be to make such a change to some part of one's personality?