PSYA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Nomothetic, Demand Characteristics, Extraversion And Introversion

• School: UTSC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYA02H3
• Professor: Ainsley Lawson

Document Summary

Personality- internal way which we reason and think of the world around us: the way we emote (our emotions, certain stability. The study of personality: describing personality, explaining personality. Demand characteristics: behaviour changed when they are being watched. In interviews (only administered by people that are trained) Validity (it"s actually measuring what its saying it measures; measure mood or extraversion. You can check the results by comparing results to another test. Same results?) vs reliability (consistency of the tests no matter how much times u take it; blood type test ) The minnesota multiphasic personality inventory (mmpi) is a widely reliable, clinical valid personality test. The questions asked influence the way they are responded too. Validity scales (don"t measure personality, just measure biases in the answering) Ex the mmpi: f scale= high rates of true can indicate severe psychopathology or over- reporting .