PSYC 2740 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: California Psychological Inventory, Inter-Rater Reliability, Open Data Protocol
7 Aug 2013
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Chapter 2- pers asses, measure + research design. S data (ppl not always honest w/ unusual desires. Self-report (s data) is most common way to assess personality trait even though honesty is sometimes an issue. Access to excess info about past, present and future. 20x, researcher must then devise a way to score or interpret. Unstructured; open-ended, limitless (but harder to quantify, no stats) Structured; dichotomous, y/n, t/f, limiting, but we can quantify these answers. Acl: adjective checklist, which is the easiest form of structured self-reports. Give a series of adjectives, participants check if that trait applies to them. More complex structure self-reports involves characterizing them on a 7-point scale called the. A personality scale (ex: activity level) consists of summing up the scores of certain individual rating scales (ex: energetic, active, and vigorous) More common than checklists however, are s data in the form of statements ex.
