AS.200.101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Buzzfeed, Intj, Neuroticism
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Audio recording started: 1:32 pm tuesday, november 7, 2017. Buzzfeed quizzes --> you answer questions and the result will show your personality We want to know who we are as people and individuals (personality) Personality --> a person"s (own and distinctive) characteristic style of behaving, thinking, feeling, and interacting with others. Challenge of personality research is measuring and finding what is personality. Consider all humans --> we have a set of aspects (character traits) and then you locate everyone on this spectrum of traits. Test retest reliability --> a test is reliable if it reverts to same score in the same person when retaken. A test might not be reliable, but helps you get the answer you want. Validity --> does this test actually aim at the characteristics i"m looking for. A test may be reliable but not valid i. You need a test that is both reliable and valid.