PSYC 3250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: California Psychological Inventory, Scree, Correlation And Dependence

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3250
• Professor: David Stanley

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You were the blue type (high school) Personality is defined as the set of characteristics of a person or of people that account for consistent patterns of response to situations. Most deal with between person than within person differences. Two approaches: deductive and ipsitive and adding a third: entertainment based. Vocational interest -> jbis. com (if you"re interested) Basic research relations with other variables. Some inventories measure a single, narrowly focused dimension. Others attempt to measure several dimensions that span a broad domain of behavior. Others attempt to measure a small set of very general traits or dimensions. Few measures would be consistent in all situations. Must be aware of range of situations in which test will be used. Example of theoretical method: the personality research form. Formulation of a theoretically based definition of the traits to be assessed; based on murray"s framework for the description of personality. The use of procedures to minimize susceptibility to social desirability response bias.