PSYCH291 Lecture Notes - Cortisol, Empirical Measure, Face Validity
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The ability to accurately infer the beliefs, desires, intentions, and emotions of others. Operationalizes a variable by recording people"s answers to questions about themselves or in an interview. Operationalizes a variable by recording observable behaviours or physical traces of behaviours. Operationalizes a variable by recording biological data -> brain activity, cortisol, heart rate, etc. Usually require the use of equipment to amplify, record, and analyze biological data. The levels of the variable are categories. Levels of the variable are coded with meaningful numbers. Distance between numerals might not be equal. Numerals have equal distances, but there is no true zero. Numerals represent equal distances and there is a true zero. A measure of how much you overlap between two things you are trying to match up. Scale of 0. 0 (no overlap) to 1. 0 (perfect overlap) Try not to publish anything below 0. 7 overlap. Consistency in results every time a measure is used.
