PSY320H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Pain Scale, Psy, Social Desirability Bias
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Currently used scales like the pain scale ranging from. 10 for another one because we all have different and subjective experience of pain. This is because the top of the scale is not equivalent to everyone -> it is because the top and bottom of the scales are not equivalent to everyone. Obama -> then both groups are asked about the morality of politicians on scale 1-10 and the second group tend to answer much more favourably than the second group that was primed in a bad morality habits of politicians) On a 1 to 10 scale very cold means different things. It has to do with adaptation levels - the idea that we adjust and anchor our high and low ends. Solution can be to make the endpoints totally extreme: lying: when you are lling some scale you do not want to look bad so you lie.
