PSYC 3300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Psychometrics, Nomothetic

• School: University of Windsor
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3300
• Professor: Ken Cramer

Document Summary

Oral type, feeling type, socially useful type Problems with typologies: we fit in one type only (zodiac, everyone in a given type is alike, people in one type are unlike people in another. Dimension of personality used to categorize people acc to the degree to which they manifest a particular characteristic. Assumes trait stability over time and situation. Continuum plots the frequency of a trait normal distribution (few at tails, most in the centre) Less concerned with one person than with people a points on the continuum: rarely predict on person"s behaviour. Place less emphasis on mechanisms that underlie behaviour. Psychoanalytic: analysis by therapist, projective tests (reliability/validity, behaviour is irrational, instinctive, unconsc, no explanation for stability and consistency. Trait: psychometrician at work, questionnaires (reliability/validity, behaviour is rational and goal-directed, traits were stable and consistent. Born in indiana; scholarly child and odd. Ph. d in 1924; group meeting at clark u.