PSYC 3480 Lecture : Personality.ppt

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3480
• Professor: Noreen Stuckless

Document Summary

The handout (will be given out in class oct: the secretary in room 281 bsb has copies). Very few significant differences: even those significant differences are very small, often said aggression and nurturance, but now, factors that can influence the size of gender differences (confounds) Characteristics: gender differences are largest when behavior is measured in terms of self- report, gender differences are largest when other people are present. Characteristics: gender differences are largest when gender is prominent and other shared roles are minimized, gender differences are largest when the behavior requires specific gender-related skills. Taken over a period of time with same subject, eg ex is aware of parites. Problemsv expensive cause have to keep track, random subject?smaller group so harder to generalize. Subjects drop out. (2)box-score or counting the no. of studies in which one is higher than other draw conclusion frm the tally of otucomes from reading diff studies.