PSYB30H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Palmistry, Standard Deviation, Effect Size
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Desiderata for a scientific theory of personality. Scientific theories: explicitly defined constructs, linked by correspondence rules, specifying testable hypotheses. The non-scientific theories are arcane systems and they include: astrology, palmistry (hand reading, our implicit personality theories. This is not to say that the implicit cannot be made Positive affect good feeling state: range of positive emotions like happiness, etc. Negative affect negative feeling state: range of negative emotions like fear, worry, etc. You are saying they are in the world and are observable. They all are a common source to the idea of dependency. You are coming with a constant based on the cues that you have seen. Hypotheses: those who score high in deq, should be scoring less in panas. However, it turns out, it"s not entirely right to say dependency is unhealthy. In fact, dependency and negative affect are only slightly correlated. Needy people showing immature dependency has higher score in negative affect.
