PSYB30H3 Final: Exam Review.docx
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Components of a scientific personality theory: explicitly defined constructs. Using construct to describe phenomenon in the world. Constructs need to be exclusively defined to capture phenomenon within the world: ex: describing variation in sociability, neuroticism, correspondence rules vulnerability. How constructs are related to each other, we can explain these relations by correspondence rules. If we express these rules well you will get a hypothesis set of expectation about how variations work: testable hypothesis. You can test hypothesis by gathering data on those constructs and correlating the variables. The above mentioned 3 are requirements for all theories but theories differ in their quality. Desiderata (desirability of a theory) for a scientific personality theory: coherent, testable, empirically valid
