PSYCH-220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Nomothetic, Discriminant, Psych
27 Oct 2020
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Define (operational definitions of what they are studying) Predict (one goal of research; say something about what we have defined and measured; predict someone"s future behavior) Apply (to clinical practice; what person may want to work on in therapy, or how that person got to be how they are) Life record (school records, medical records, etc. ) Observer (data that is gathered by other people rather than the person themselves, from people that know them well, through questionnaires or checklists, or interviews, or by trained observers in a research setting, sometimes not accurate) Test (data gathered by computer generated types of things, advantage is that it is unbiased and objective, how we see ourselves can be different from how test data describes us) Self-report (most common data gathered; when you have a person report on themselves in interviews or questionnaires, sometimes not accurate, do observer and self-report match?) Nomothetic (fixed or standardized measures like a multiple-choice test or the.
