PSYC 2600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Factor Analysis, Open Data Protocol, Cortisol

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2600
• Professor: Danay Novoa

Document Summary

Psyc2600 - introduction to the study of personality week 3 - personality assessment, Personality is inside: bring it from situation to situation. Situational specificity certain situations can provoke behavior that is out of character for an individual. Strong situations: despite personality differences, most people behave the same way. Weak or ambiguous situations, personality has larger influence. Selection personality impacts the situations we choose to enter. Research designs in personality: correlational studies, experimental methods, case studies. Experimental methods: used to determine causality whether one variable causes another, independent variable (manipulated), dependent variable (outcome, personality interactions. Two key requirements: manipulation of variables (independent variable, ensuring that participants in each experimental condition are equivalent to each other (sample size) Disadvantage: results based on the study of single person cannot be generalized to others. Sources of personality data: self-report data (s-data, observer-report data (o-data, test-data (t-data, life-outcome data (l-data)