PSY - Psychology PSY 3316 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Predictive Validity, Conscientiousness, Trait Theory
15 Dec 2017
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It is a way of putting pieces together to come to a common conclusion. If i judge you to you to be conscientious, and so your parents, and so do your friends, and so do you it is likely though not certain that you are conscious. If my judgement that you are conscientious converges with the subsequent empirical fact that you arrive on time for all your class meetings fro the next three semesters. Example: predictive validity is the extent to which performance on a test is related to later performance that the test was designed to predict. For example, the sat test is taken by high school students to predict their future performance in college (namely, their college gpa). Is one that affects the relationships between two other variables. Is the matter of what you see is what you get . One explanation for how accurate judgement is possible.
