PHIL 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Open Data Protocol, Job Performance, Raymond Cattell

• School: York University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 1100
• Professor: Henry Jackman

Document Summary

Everybody, at an intuitive level, is a personality researcher. We all observe differences among people, and distinctive patterns of behavior that make individuals unique. These observations constitute the research evidence we use to formulate our intuitive personality theories. However, your intuitive research differs from that of the personality scientist. Scientists follow established procedures that are designed to yield to information that is objective and accurate. They report their methods and results in scientific journals, so other scientists can replicate their procedures and verify their findings. This chapter introduces you to the types of research personality psychologists conduct and report. One cannot first conduct theory free research & only later develop theories to explain the research results. There is no such thing as truly theory free research. Research involves the systematic study of relationships among events. We need a theory to identify the events that are most important to study and the methods that are adequate for studying them.