PSYC 406 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Guide: Odds Ratio, Standard Error, Child Murder

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 406
• Professor: David Vachon

Document Summary

All fields of human behaviour use some kind of measurement. We might subjectively grade someone on performance, take sat"s grt, or lie detection- testing your bodies response. Apparently in the special olympics, the top runners had better times than those in the regular olympics. Behavioural indicator of personality- how you approach squeezing the toothpaste- not true. Tbh it started before the time the textbook said just not formally. Among animals- noting individual diff. in them and all through evolution. Characterization of these diff. is exemplified by language- adjectives to describe people and the lexical hypothesis. Lexical hypothesis********- any imp. individual characteristic will get noticed and come up with a word to describe it. Personality measure- take the entire language, factor analysis in adjectives to group clusters. Strong theory of personality- root of observation and language development. Anything imp. gets manifested in language and if it is more imp. we will have more words for it.