PSYCH-UA 30 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Redneck, Statistical Hypothesis Testing, Shelley E. Taylor
18 Dec 2016
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Trait theorist as self-consciousness increases (awareness of how you appear to others) Very low correlation (. 30 correlation coefficient: measure of trait-related behavior in situation 1 vs. in situation. 4 let"s say: correlational coefficient goes from . 00 to 1. 0 original epiphany based on walter mischel"s data. Title of his paper: some people are consistent across some. He gave ppl a set of situations and asked ppl how related the situations were to a specific trait. Able to show that through self-report, people can lay out a set of. Decided eventually that we should do some invivo research: research that basically looks at ppl"s behavior in their real lives. Camp for conduct disorder" kids (kids w/ aggressive tendencies) All of these kids have tendency to behave aggressively: should be rather consistent across situations with aggression. Decided to look at a whole bunch of situations: observe kids in various situations + see how they behave.
