PSY 260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cluster Analysis, Face Validity, Extraversion And Introversion
28 Sep 2016
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Molecular (biological) (the brain and nervous system) (the setting) Self-judgement: agreeing or disagreeing with a given statement about onself. Convergent-report: constructing a response that meets a criterion. Thematic-report: creating responses that reflect themes or ideas. Process-report: pertaining to something going on in your mind at the moment. Observationism: repeated, intensive study of cases, over consistent conditions. 1. 0 and -1. 0 represent perfect relations (doesn"t exist; never get it except life and death) Things to remembering measuring a window for window blinds: Measure the exact width of the window at 3 different places. Make all measurements to the nearest 1/8 inch. Informal: that a test measures what it measures with consistency. Formal: the correlation, r, between the true score and the obtained score. Theories of how to measure abstract, mental phenomena. T: the true score e: the error score. E=0 (how will we really know if there is no error?) Definition: that a test measures what it is supposed to measure.
