Psychology 2550A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Neurology, Neurosis, Primal Force
2 Nov 2012
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Dropping the seminar just after midterms/reading week probably as time to work on the. Look at things that should have been done differently or things you think were done well. Just want to see that you"ve read the articles essays due. It influences every decision we make (career, spouse, health, etc) and therefore can limit or expand our options. It encompasses how we behave, how we live and how we feel about how we live. Describing personality: terrific/awful: personality covers too many things and is influenced by too many factors (situation, etc) to be easily described. Every theorist has their own opinion and they sometimes clash. Construct: a hypothesis that is developed to explain or interpret life events. Reliability: consistency of a response to a psychological assessment device: test-retest, equivalent forms (similar copies of the same test), split-half (scores from one half of the test are compared to the other half)
