PSYB30H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory, Justin Trudeau, Personality Test
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Scientific method: eliminates any biases that the individual has, hopefully its systematic, observational studies and personality questionnaires, correlational and experimental designs. S3: scientific method: describe how to make and test observations, draw conclusions, minimize errors. Independent verification: atheoretical (no theory) is not as informative, no other variables have impact on your results. S4: research designs in personality: experimental methods. 2 people doing the same experiment, seeing if they bring in the same results/agreement: to infer causality whether one variable causes another, has 2 key requirements manipulation of variables, participants are equal in both groups. Gender, personality: random assignment doesn"t work when you are working with small sample sizes, disadvantage artificial, doesn"t generalize, correlational studies. 1 to +1: directionality problem, third variable problem, case studies. Self-report data (s-data: observer-report data (o-data, test-data (t-data, life-outcome data (l-data) Information provided by a person, such as through a survey or interview.
