PSYC 2740 Lecture Notes - Repeated Measures Design, Nomothetic, Open Data Protocol
14 Apr 2013
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State: anxiety an unpleasant emotional arousal in the face of danger/threats. Trait: anxiety tendency to respond with state anxiety in the anticipation of threats. 3 levels of analyzing personality: human nature : like all others. Guide for researchers evaluated by considering: comprehensiveness parsimony. *dispositional: focuses on number and nature of traits (links to all domains and focuses how people differ)* Biological: views people as biological systems that are the foundation for personality. Intrapsychic: largely pertains to mental mechanisms of personality outside of consciousness. Cognitive-experiential: pertains to cognition and subjective experiences of ourselves and others. Social-cultural: entails the view that personality is influenced by social and cultural contexts. Adjustment: pertains how we cope, adapt and adjust to various forms of change & events. Lecture two: personality assessment, measurement and research design. Sources of data: self-report (s-data), structured: responses are set; includes dichotomous (forced choice) and likert-ratings (1 never, 2 rarely,
