PSYA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Memory Span, Psychological Testing, Content Validity
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Research that aims to study the average person. Most psychological research focuses on nomothetic research. Do experiments, manipulations, or calculations, get an average score and then generalize that score to fit human description. Conducting experiments on human memory, and then arriving to the notion that humans have a memory span of 7 digits. Some psychological research focuses on individual differences work and aims to understand how and why humans differ in the way that they do. Ex: how different cultures differ from one another. Ex: putting individuals in gifted programs while others remain in normal standing or in lower educational standing. Measuring an individual"s intelligence can be controversial. Another way to describe intelligence is the ability to look at the world in a different (good) way. Higher scale of intelligence can lead to higher levels of success. He is intelligent in his department and his worth ethics. However, to others he may or may not be intelligent.
