PSYC 2001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Internal Consistency, Operational Definition, Graduate Record Examinations

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2001
• Professor: Angel Mackenzie

Document Summary

Evaluate the (cid:494)adequacy(cid:495) of the operational definition. Is the operational definition sufficiently measuring the construct it claims to measure? (are you measuring what you think you are measuring?) Evaluate the extent to which the independent variable was the cause of the changes or differences in the dependent variable. Evaluate the extent that the results can be generalized to other populations and settings. You should be able to see this in the real world also, not just in the lab, in. Objective and subjective data order to have external validity. Objective measures (public experience) counting events, physical measurements (time, eeg). This is the psychology doesn(cid:495)t allow for objective measure. Subjective measures (private experience) rating of others; rating of self (self report). Objective and subjective measures: problems and solutions measure that we want to use if possible because it gets rid of bias. Subjective: bias (self reporting might down play undesirable traits)