PSYC370 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Personality Test, Null Hypothesis, Type I And Type Ii Errors
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Rather offer methods for generating research aimed at these questions. Do not provide firm answers to questions about the mind/behavior, but. Chapter 3 personality psychology as science: research methods. Technology training conveying what is already known about a subject. Scientific education teaches what is known and how to find out what is. Scientific education and technical training so the knowledge con be applied. Measuring a trait, which is usual/constant over time, then winning the lottery would be relevant because that is not how they are acting all the time. 1) low precision measurements should be taken as. 2) state of participant (cid:498)noise(cid:499) in a study; not very. 3) state of experimenter also inevitable; gender effects. 4) study environment noise, temperature, weather . 1) be careful double check, proofread, etc. 4) aggregation averaging; random influences cancel each someone vs. something they don"t care about. 2) use constant, scripted procedure for all participants. 3) measure something that is important rather than.