PSYB01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Normal Distribution, Confirmatory Factor Analysis, Stereotype Threat
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Psychological theory: provides conceptual framework for research, meaning of key terms and identifies how variables are measured or operationalized. Constructs: abstract concepts; specified in a theory to describe explain and predict a wide range of empirical findings ex. Intelligence, personality, memory; includes several indicators that are made into variables. Specify three different dependent variables on the same construct and the independent variables that produce the dependent variables. Interpersonal violence use independent variable of staged manipulation and measured dependent variable of how loud blasted with noise cut; or independent variable of narcissism. Intervening variable: mediates relationship between independent and dependant variable ex. Perceived threat links narcissism and decibel level; hypothetical internal states that are critical components of the deductive structure of a theory. Measurement: assignment of numerals to variables (objects or events) according to some objective rule. Anxiety; three different variables using different forms of measurement galvanized skin response, self report, and observational.
