CAS PS 251 Lecture 2: Personality Psychology PS 251, Lecture 2
9 Aug 2018
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Testable: whatever theory one has, it must be testable. Parsimonious: the theory must evoke the least complicated explanation; simplicity. Productive: leads to new ideas and new research or questions; generation of new information. Clues to personality look at all parts of the psychological triad (thought feeling and behaviors) 4 main clues (data are clues: s data (self- report) High face validity= it asses what it seems it will asses; most common: magazines. Advantages: could potentially gather a lot of information from someone, bc we are with ourselves all day erryday. Access to internal thoughts, that only you have access to. Definitional truth: data is true, possibility of being true bc we are asking you about yourself. Casual force: how you think about yourself effects your behavior and creates your own reality. People lie, all the time, maybe not on purpose bc of lack of self awareness, distorted perception.
