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| The 2 faces of Personality |
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| McAdam's 3 Levels of Personality |
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1. Traits 2. Personal Concerns 3. Identity as Life Story |
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| Sociable, dominant, anxious; decontentualized, linear comparative; genetic component predict behavior tendency; problems-labels, 1st read of a stranger |
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| Motives value, goals, concerns, style contextualized in time and place and role; person- environment interaction person in the world in order to when, then... |
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| attempt to construct meaningful integration of me typically in form of an evolving narrative personal myth, understood in terms of plot, theme setting, character |
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| 4 kinds of personality information |
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| s-data, i-data, l-data, b-data |
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Ask the person about his or her personality *self Self-judgment, high face validity, most frequently used data in psychology |
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Ask acquaintance about his or her personality *informant informant reports, personality from an outsider's perspective, letter of recommendation, reference, gossip |
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See how the person is fairing in life *life outcome Verifable, concrete real-life outcomes with psychological significance (married, income, tickets) Obtained from archival records or self-reports residue of personality |
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Watch the person what he or she is doing *behavioral Watch a person in a real-life setting or in the lab |
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| the worlds best expert about your personality is you, inner mental life is invisible to others, easy,efficient, economic |
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Maybe they want tell you impression management Maybe they can't tell you (self deception_ Too simple and too easy Overused of self-report in science |
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Draq on large amount of info Based on real world data through common sense Social relevance reliability through aggregation |
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Limited amount of info Perceptual error ordinary vs, extreme motivational bias |
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intrinsically important psychologically relevant ree from potential self-report bias |
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multidetermination relatively hard to obtain ethical consideration |
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| audio or video records, diary/experiment sampling |
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range of context objective and quantifiable unbiased by subjective judgments behavioral truth |
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uncertain interpretation expensive to collect |
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| descriptive, correlational, experimental |
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| descriptive research example |
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railroad worker for Rutland and Burlington Railroad, sept, 13, 1848: accident with a tamping iron Forgot to add sand tamping iron it hit the rock and made a spark and went through his brain, he never lost consciousness but never the same Before- capable, efficient, best foreman, well-balanced mind After- anti-social liar, grossly profane could not hold a job 1st evident for the role of the frontal lobe inhibiting behavior |
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| Measure of Central Tendency |
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expressing each score relative to the sample's mean and standard deviation z= (x-μ)/ σ |
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| The correlation coefficient |
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| a standardized measure for the degree of association/ co-variation between too variables, can vary between -1 and 1 |
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| Experimenal Research in the only way to... |
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| determine cause and effect, need random assignment |
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test for mean differences between 2 groups differences between groups compared to variability groups signal to noise ratio |
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test for separate or joint effects of IV's on a DV Requires factorial design Main effects and interaction effects Ex: women, men and remote communication patterns |
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Factor Analysis (2 major facets) |
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finds commonality between all things to bring it into one cluster ideas together 2 variables are statistically independent |
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| the odds of obtaining a certain result in a sample when in fact the effect in the population is zero |
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| statistically significant |
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the odds that a result observed in a sample is due to sampling bias is less than 5% or 1% |
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| deciding that there is an effect when there isnt |
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| deciding that there is no effect when really there is one |
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| probability to detect an effect, depends on: Alpha level, effect size, sample size |
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•Focus: individual differences: Anxious/sociable/dominant in a relative rather than absolute sense •Goals: Measure Traits Predict and Explain Behavior •Questions: –Do personalit traits exist –What are the most important personality traits –How well do traits predict behavior |
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| Attitudes towards Fidel Castro Experiment |
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Students were randomly assigned to write either Pro-Castro or Anti-Castro essay other students read these essays and rated the writer's attitude towards Castro |
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Student's were randomly assigned questioner's, contestants or observers Questioners were invited to make up difficult questions that demonstrated their knowledge Students rated the general knowledge of the questioners and the contestants |
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