PSYB30H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Paternal Care, Neoteny, Pair Bond
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** study for final exam more than term tests. Emerging adult: the middle of childhood and adulthood. Astrology: system of personality theories (characteristics people should have) Our implicit personality theories: trying to understand oneself: implicit but can be formalized and made into a explicit theory (cid:498)dependency is unhealthy(cid:499) an example of formalizing an informal theory. Construct: observing cues to come up with construct. Rules: linking health and well being: well being consists of: positive affect, negative affect, life satisfaction. The more you show of dependency the less you show of well. Hypothesis: the more you show of dependency the less you show of well being being, these are tested through scales. Co-variation reflects the likely hood that two variables go together: correlation coefficients (r): standardized index of how two variables relates to one another (the number ranges from -1 to +1. +1: variables are related to one another (one factors goes up the other goes up_
