Psychology 2800E Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Discriminant, Ks Studenti, Face Validity

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2800E
• Professor: Glen Gorman

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Happiness can be defined in many ways a researcher needs to decide what the conceptual definition of the variable will be. >come up with conceptual definition (ex: a person"s perception of their own well-being) >then develop operational definition (ex: self-report of own happiness with life in questionnaire format) In the most ways my life is close to my ideal. So far i have gotten the important things i want in life. If i could live m life over, i would change almost nothing. > 1= strongly disagree and 7= strongly agree . Unhappiest people would score 5 (answer 1 on all items) Happiest people would score 35 (answer 7 on all items) Neither happy nor unhappy would score 20 (answer 4 on all items) >ordinal=meaningful values but unequal intervals between units, used for ranking but not a positive analyzing of the data(ex: products rated on amazon)