PSY230H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Personal Unconscious, Collective Unconscious, Discriminant Validity
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Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life, and you will call it fate -- c. jung. Locus of control scale (the second one) [lds = locus de control: measures the extent of you have control of things vs. what you can"t control. It"s not a pure construct -- it"s multidimensional. If control is internal probably means you"re more confident, have goals. It"s a useful tool to measure personality: researchers try to refine things. Eg. some may find se is the same as optimism or they are different/just have some similarities. Much of personality research is about method. But they are unique constructs: researchers create scales and get people to fill them out, there more than 1 question, so they can see how consistent people answer (to get patterns from them) To get a better understanding of the person"s personality as a whole.
