PSYB30H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Multiple Dispatch, Predictive Validity, Criterion Validity
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Evolutionary perspectives will not be included in the midterm but will be on final. The lecture for evolutionary perspective will be pushed back until after reading week. **won"t be asked about dates on exams** Personality and mate preferences: five factors in mate selection and marital. Or make changes to their preferred mate overtime. Two studies were conducted one was on dating couples and the second was on married couples. 5 factor model was operationalized based on adjectives. Data was used based on a variety of sources (multi-method approach); adds validity to their findings. If you get some consistency in these various sources, you have greater confidence in your results. Preferring mates that were similar to themselves (cid:523)so they didn"t settle(cid:524) Personality characteristics of one"s partner significantly predicted martial and sexual dissatisfaction, most notably when the partner was lower than desired on. Have some limitations depending on the methods (ex. self-reports)
