CSP 161 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Experimental Drug, Extraversion And Introversion, Sampling Bias

• School: University of Rochester
• Department: Clinical and Social Sciences in Psychology
• Course: CSP 161
• Professor: Andrew Elliot

Document Summary

Type/trait, need/motive, and biological approaches show that personality is real and important. Then came personality and assessment, mischel (1968) and the person-situation. If traits exist, then we should see consistency in behavior (but we do not: there is only modest consistency in behavior observed in studies: r = +. 30 a pretty weak correlation. The correlation of traits and honesty for different dimensions of honesty is just . 23: this r is real (not just due to measurement error) +. 30 is still important: predictions are often made based on way smaller correlations than . 30. Asprin and blood thinning/ less heart attack are correlated at . 03, yet it was enough to determine the. 35: correlation between choosing treatment is . 3 and it was basically uniform in our class. Aggregation: a trait measure that has a lot of items together that when aggregated they explain numerous behaviors better measure and higher consistency. Measured extroversion and measured person"s social interaction for forty days.