PSYC 2130 Lecture Notes - Predictive Validity, Test Validity
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Psyc 2130 chapter 6: personality judgment in daily life. People judge the personalities of each other and of themselves all the time and these judgments have important consequences. Expectancy effects: other people"s judgments of an individual can affect that person"s opportunities and can create self fulfilling prophecies or expectancy effects. Therefore, it is important to examine when and how judgments are accurate. For an extended period of time, psychologists went out of their way to avoid researching accuracy. The most basic reason why accuracy experienced this lengthy hiatus, is that researchers were stymied by a fundamental problem: by what criteria can personality judgements made by somebody else be judged right or wrong. This point of view is bolstered by the philosophy of constructivism, which is widespread throughout modern intellectual life. This philosophy holds that reality as a concrete entity does not exist. All that does exist are human ideas, or constructions, of reality.
