Which type of data (SILB) are most commonly provided by personality tests?
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S data
-"self monitoring scales" asks how closely you watch other people for cues
as to how we behave
-"Attribution complexity" scale asks about the level of complexity in your
thinking about the causes of behavior
,What are the methods of objective tests?
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Rational
Empirical
Factor Analysis
Interactionism:
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persons and situations constantly interact to produce behavior together
What are the three ways persons and situations interact?
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1. The effect of a personality variable may depend on the situation or vice
versa Ex: drinking coffee-introverts got worse and extraverts got better
2. Situations are not randomly populated (people go to different types of
situations-like a biker bar)
3. Way people change situations by virtue of what they do in them (way
someone reacts to a punch)
What are the three personality variables to predict happiness in relationships?
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, -a low level of negative emotionality
-high level of positive emotionality
-and constraint
Do people in long term relationships have similar personalities?
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-only slightly(correlations in most studied dimensions are between 0 and
.25)
"The personality of one spouse gives very little clue as to the personality of
the other spouse"
For S data personality to work, four conditions must hold:
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1. Each item must mean the same thing to the person who takes the test as it
did to the psychologist who wrote it
2. The person who completes the form must be able to make an accurate
self assessment
3. The person who completes the test must be willing to report his self
assessment accurately and without distortion
4. All of the items must be valid indicators of what the testers trying to
measure
Why did psychologists developing personality tests using the empirical method
prefer to ignore the actual test items? In other words, they were not concerned at all
with the items' face validity. Why?
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the answers on the test are not considered important because it only
matters what the group the individual belong to
In what way is factor analysis pretty subjective?
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once the computer has identified a cluster of items as being related
statistically, a human psychologist must still decide how they are related
conceptually
-disagreement on labels
-might say friendly but it could be likable or conformed
-figuring out the meaning of all of this is subjective
What variable is better for describing how people act in general?
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personality traits
Is divorced predicted by personality?
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S data
-"self monitoring scales" asks how closely you watch other people for cues
as to how we behave
-"Attribution complexity" scale asks about the level of complexity in your
thinking about the causes of behavior
,What are the methods of objective tests?
Give this one a try later!
Rational
Empirical
Factor Analysis
Interactionism:
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persons and situations constantly interact to produce behavior together
What are the three ways persons and situations interact?
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1. The effect of a personality variable may depend on the situation or vice
versa Ex: drinking coffee-introverts got worse and extraverts got better
2. Situations are not randomly populated (people go to different types of
situations-like a biker bar)
3. Way people change situations by virtue of what they do in them (way
someone reacts to a punch)
What are the three personality variables to predict happiness in relationships?
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, -a low level of negative emotionality
-high level of positive emotionality
-and constraint
Do people in long term relationships have similar personalities?
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-only slightly(correlations in most studied dimensions are between 0 and
.25)
"The personality of one spouse gives very little clue as to the personality of
the other spouse"
For S data personality to work, four conditions must hold:
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1. Each item must mean the same thing to the person who takes the test as it
did to the psychologist who wrote it
2. The person who completes the form must be able to make an accurate
self assessment
3. The person who completes the test must be willing to report his self
assessment accurately and without distortion
4. All of the items must be valid indicators of what the testers trying to
measure
Why did psychologists developing personality tests using the empirical method
prefer to ignore the actual test items? In other words, they were not concerned at all
with the items' face validity. Why?
, Give this one a try later!
the answers on the test are not considered important because it only
matters what the group the individual belong to
In what way is factor analysis pretty subjective?
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once the computer has identified a cluster of items as being related
statistically, a human psychologist must still decide how they are related
conceptually
-disagreement on labels
-might say friendly but it could be likable or conformed
-figuring out the meaning of all of this is subjective
What variable is better for describing how people act in general?
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personality traits
Is divorced predicted by personality?
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