Psychology 2550A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Intelligence Quotient, Psych, Internal Validity
9 Jan 2018
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Why a science of personality: to predict future behavior, to find out how individuals understand themselves, to understand causes of behavior, to test accuracy of predictions. Range of personality relevant measures: psychologists obtain info about people from many sources, through wide range of strategies, to be truly scientific, conceptualization must be testable. Interviews: oldest method for studying personality, and most favored by psychodynamic and phenomenological clinicians, can be expensive and time consuming quick self-reports are often preferred, have become more easily scored and coded. Tests and self-reports: test any standardized measure of behavior, including verbal behavior, self-reports tests that include statements people make about themselves, some tests involve performance measures (ex: iq test) Objective measures: questions and responses are clearly defined, ex: mmpi-ii. Projective measures: client presented w/ ambiguous stimuli/questions that have no right or wrong answers, ex: tell me what you see while showing an inkblot rorschach, psychodynamic-motivational use these.
