PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Discriminant, Social Desirability Bias, Hypochondriasis
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Psyb30 - lecture 4 - february 6th, 2013. Exam is monday february 25th, 5-7 pm, 3 separate rooms, check portal for details. Personality assessment: it"s the process of evaluating personality or individual differences through 3 means: tests, interviews, observations. It involves use of systematic standardized procedures for observing, measuring, recording behaviours and personality features. Reliability: the test you use is going to give the same results irrelevant of the number of times the test is done and the number of people it"s done to: time. Test-retest (ex. neuroticism; two tests should have strong correspondence: items. Chronbach"s alpha (>. 70; . 70 would be the minimum you would look for) Asking raters to rate aggression on scale of 1-10. If your observational data are clear and raters are well trained, there should be strong correspondence in between the raters) Four types: construct validity: tests are closely aligned with your construct. Things you can"t measure directly, must infer about it such as personality.