PSYC 2030 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Alsn, Khust, Scone
10 Dec 2015
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Acquiescent response set tendency of an individual to go along with any request or attitudinal statement. Behavioural diary data collection technique in which the research participant keeps a record of events at the time they occur. Big five factors ocean; collective name for 5 broad domains of individual personality: openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism. Ceiling effect testing or measurement condition in which there is little opportunity for upward movement, as when test items are too easy and participants" scores were very high to begin with. Central tendency bias type of response set in which the respondent is reluctant to give extreme ratings and instead rates in the direction of the mean of the total group. Cue words guiding labels that define particular points or categories of response. Evaluation apprehension rosenberg"s term for the experience of feeling discomfort about the possibility of being negatively evaluated or not positively evaluated.
