PSYC35H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Internal Consistency, Face Validity, Amygdala
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Lecture 2: personality assessment, measurement, & research design. Personality is set of psychological traits & mechanisms within individual that are organized & relatively enduring & that influence his/her interactions with, & adaptations to e (including intrapsychic, psychical, & social e) Ex: asking someone to be more extroverted/introverted when they are not: studies of typical & atypical populations. Life-outcome data (l-data) observer judgments, self-reports, and tests, or l-data, o-data, s-data, and t-data. Ex: neuroimaging -> fmri, pet scans: expensive & r evidence is not convincing. Di erential methods can be organized according to types of data one can use to study individual di erences. The outcome is used as outcome/criterion variable. Other time it is used as predictor,, it depends on how r q is raised. If all observers agree on observation about personality traits, & various behavior. Professional personality assessors someone who is skilled and knowledgeable.
