PSYB30H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Personnel Selection, Hypomania, Word Association
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The process of evaluating individual differences through. Involves the use of systematic standardized procedures for observing, measuring, and recording behaviours and personality features. Items: across individual items on a test, use chronbach"s alpha (greater than . 70), need this because a lot of times ask same question in various ways. : measuring what you say you are measuring. Construct: test is closely aligned with the construct you are trying to measure, construct: anything you cant measure directly (ie personality) Face: does the test look like whatever it is you are trying to measure, the baxter. Convergent validity: how much the scores on your test converge with the scores on another measure thats already established. Discriminant validity: low correlation on one measure vs another-shows that those two things are separate from each other. Freud: dreams represented the unconscious desires of the dreamer, desires & conflicts person was unaware of.
