PS101 Lecture Notes - Behaviorism, Collective Unconscious, Orgasm

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29 Oct 2013
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Throughout time people have been intuitively aware of individual difference. That they like some people and not others. Theophrastus wrote about different characters to try to describe individual differences. Personality: distinctive and relatively enduring ways of thinking, feeling, and acting that characterize a person"s response to situations. Comes from the word persona- actors mask. How do we measure personality: ask them, ask others, results of a test, observe them, physiological measures, behavioral assessment. Interviews: structured set of standardized questions, note other behaviours appearance, speech patterns etc. Drawbacks: characteristics of interviewer can affect answers, dependence on co-operation, honesty of interviewee. Behavioural assessment: need explicit coding system, aim is not solely to describe behaviour. Specific behaviour, frequency, specific situations, under what conditions: interjudge reliability. Use standard questions and agreed upon scoring key. Advantage: collect large amount of data. Disadvantage: validity of answers (truthfully answered?, validity scales.

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