PSYC 305 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, California Psychological Inventory, Startle Response
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Chapter 2: personality assessment, measurement and research design. Obtained through: interviews, periodic reports, questionnaires (most common) Advantages: individuals have access to lots of information about themselves. E. g. level of anxiety, emotions, feelings, desires, beliefs and private experiences. Disadvantages: respondents must be willing to and be able to answer the questions, respondents not always honest. Especially asked about unconventional experiences/desires/sex practices/traits: common: then asked which term describes them. Structured questions: forced (true-and-false questions: most common include trait-descriptive adjectives (e. g. active, ambitious, anxious etc, some people may lack self-knowledge. Unstructured questions: open-ended: e. g. (cid:498)tell me about the parties you like the most(cid:499, twenty statements test (cid:523)blank paper with (cid:498)) am(cid:499) repeated 20 times(cid:524, e. g. (cid:498)) like loud and crowded parties(cid:499) true or false. Cpi (california psychological inventory) read statements and asked if agree/disagree: good for obtaining information about how a person"s trait changes over time. Observer-report data (o-data): using other people to gather information about a person"s.
