Psychology 2550A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Internal Consistency, Concurrent Validity, Predictive Validity

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2550A/B
• Professor: David Vollick

Document Summary

Interview: a verbal method in which a person interacts directly with an interviewer in a one-on-one situation. Favored by psychodynamic-motivational level and phenomenological level workers. Can be tightly structured and formal or more flexible. Oldest method of studying personality and most favored for psychodynamic research and assessment. Inventory was devised in wwi to detect soldiers at risk of mental break downs using a questionnaire. Test: a means of obtaining information about a person through standardized measures of behavior and personal qualities. Woodworth"s personal data sheet later knows as the psychoneurotic. Performance measures: measures that directly test the individual"s ability to. Self-reports: statements that the individual makes about himself or herself. Quick ways of getting information the person is willing and able to reveal perform a task. Projective measures: assessors present a person with ambiguous stimuli and ask ambiguous questions that have no right or wrong answer. Naturalistic observation: unobtrusively observing the moment-by-moment lives of individuals.