PSY 325 Chapter 6.3: Chapter 6 Textbook Notes Contd
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Conservatives today were described 20 years earlier as: Likely to obey an authority figure"s commands to harm another person. Liberals today were described 20 years earlier as: *children with emotional difficulties were likely to have parents that scored high on authoritarianism. Therefore, the children"s later political beliefs might be associated with their early emotional traits, but also could be directly influenced by their parent"s political beliefs and the direct impact of them, as well as the potential of genetic similarity. Reducing the many to a few: theoretical and factor analytic approaches. Undercontrolled people are more prone to act on impulses (freudian) *which one is best depends on the situation. Can adjust level of control from high to low and low to high as circumstances are appropriate. Correlating every measured variable with every other variable. If something is important, there is a word for it. The important aspects of human life will be labeled.
