Psychology 2550A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Positron Emission Tomography, Electrodermal Activity

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2550A/B
• Professor: David Vollick

Document Summary

Why a science of personality: to predict future behavior, to find out how individuals understand themselves, to understand the causes of behavior. The range of personality relevant measures: psychologists obtain information about people from many sources, through a wide range of strategies, to be truly scientific, a population must be testable. Interviews: oldest method for studying personality, and most favored by psychodynamic and phenomenological clinicians, can be expensive and time consuming quick self-repots are often preferred, have become more easily scored and coded. Tests and self-reports: a test is any standardized measure of behavior, including verbal behavior, self- reports are tests that include statements people make about themselves, some tests involve performances measure. Objective measures: questions and responses are clearly defined e. g. , mmpi-ii. Projective measures: client presented with ambiguous stimuli/questions that have no right or wrong answer, for example, tell me what to see , while showing an inkblot rorschach, psychodynamic motivational use these.