PSYB30H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Social Learning Theory, Neoteny, Statistical Significance
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Personality traits/dispositions: general, internal, and comparative dispositions that account for the consistencies in people"s behaviour (sketching an outline) Characteristic adaptations: adaptations to the motivational cognitive developmental challenges that people confront across the life span (filling in the details) Integrative life stories: internalized self-narratives that integrate sat, present, and future to provide life with a sense of unity and per pose (integrating life) Components of scientific theories: explicitly defined constructs. Every theory begins with constructs concepts that we use to account for phenomenon in the world. Most psychologists are interested in things that are hard to see or are hard to point at directly. The propositions/statements that we make that relate one construct to. A range of behaviours: correspondence rules another construct. A prediction of how we think our data will look like. Our measure of dependency will be correlated with a measure of mood. Key statistical concepts: variation & covariation. From -1 to 1: effect size & significance.
