PSYC 2600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Phineas Gage, Gordon Allport, Criterion Validity

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2600
• Professor: Lorena Ruci

Document Summary

Lecture 2 personality psychology: reliability precision. Evaluation of personality measures will be the same: reliability refers to the consistency or stability of a measure, types of reliability, test-retest reliability the scores between two different tests. Inter-rater reliability the scores remain the same regardless of. Internal consistency reliability researchers create and distribute the scale. They need to make sure the scales are strong. We will get the same result from measuring them one time to ten times. Example: you think you are measuring happiness, your scale should not correlate with the construct of sadness. There should be a negative correlation in comparison measures the theoretical construct. This is bidirectional relationship) to +1 (perfect positive: third-variable problem, case studies, in-depth examination of the life of one person. Interview of person and informants, naturalistic observation, archival research, etc: gordon allport, advantages, personality in great detail. Insights into personality to formulate a general theory to test on a larger sample.