PSYC 2740 Lecture Notes - Repeated Measures Design, Convergent Validity, Open Data Protocol

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2740
• Professor: Stephen Lewis

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Ex. true or false, yes or no, likert ratings (on a scale of 1-10) Can respond in as much detail as they want. Therefore stats can be used to determine if the results are significant. Cannot use routine stats, must use a qualitative approach. Some people do not want to implicate themselves in a unfavourable way. People don t want to expose their negative qualities. Some people are not able to be objective. Some are not very introspective or knowledgeable of themselves. Event sampling: self-report data that happens over time to assess variables that might change in. 30 youth (12-19) past history of self-harming behaviour or thoughts about it within the last two weeks. Method: everyone was given a pda and over two weeks recorded thoughts or actions of self-injury or suicide. Used to escape negative thoughts and feelings. Suicidal thoughts occurred more with sadness than self-injury thoughts.