PSY BEH 170S Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Brain Damage, Psychosurgery, Epigenetics
13 Oct 2016
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Chapter 1: the study of the person: the goals of personality psychology. Chapter 2: personality research methods: psychology"s emphasis by method: scientific education and technical training. Personality data: four kinds of data (s-data, i-data, l-data, and b-data); quality of data (reliability, validity, & generalizability) Research design: case method, experimental studies; correlational studies. Chapter 3: assessment, effect size, and ethics: the nature of personality assessment: the most important thing to know about a personality judgment is the degree to which it is right or wrong. The business of personality testing: companies & religious groups; need training to spot an invalid test. Chapter 4: personality traits, situations, and behavior: the trait approach: the trait approach is based on the ideas that all men are like some other men . People are inconsistent: whatever you conclude the truth to be, there will be numerous exceptions.
