PSYA02H3 Lecture 1: Introduction to Psychology Part 2 Lecture Notes All Lectures
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Monday january 8th 2018 chapter 12, lecture 1. How to measure personality: personality measurements instead usually take one of two forms change their behaviour as they want to be more favourable, personality inventories, also called personality tests/scales, projective techniques. Criticisms of personality inventories: test administrator can be biased but less common with true or false questions, test taker may not know everything about herself, test taker can be biased. Wednesday january 10th 2018 -chapter 12 lecture 2. Mmpi validity scales: these are sets of questions that attempt to mitigated bias, examples, f-scale: high rates of true responses can indicate severe psychopathology or over reporting, evil spirits possess me at times. I don"t always tell the truth: ?-scale: high rates of i don"t know may indicate an invalid test, they throw these answers out limited number of i don"t know answers you could put.