HPS121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Face Validity, Standard Deviation, Unconditional Positive Regard

• School: Deakin University
• Department: Health
• Course: HPS121
• Professor: Richelle Mayshack

Document Summary

So other researchers can understand exactly how we obtained the data we are reporting on. Participants (who we investigated: age range, gender breakdown, total number of participants (n, age range and m (average), and sd (standard deviation, gender split (n and %, voluntary participants, recruitment type (random sampling, or snowballing) Informed consent: what the participants did, what happened to their data. Must be in past tense , you are tell others what you have already done. Distinctive behaviours, thinking patterns, and feelings demonstrated by an individual. We are like all other people, some other people and like no other person. Demonstrate beahaviours, thoughts or feelings consistent with others, the combination makes us unique. Can be like some others but the combinations are different. Objective methods: structured interviews, behavioural assessment, personality questionnaires. Projective methods: rorschach (inkblot) test, thematic apperception test. Many clinicians favour objective assessments (reliability issues and validity with projective) There is no perfect way to assess personality.