PSY 0160- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 51 pages long!)
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Personality: psychological qualities (attributes), contribute to enduring and distinctive, patterns of feeling, thinking and behaving. Human universals: what is generally true about everybody. Individual differences: how does one person differ from another. Scientific observation: large and diverse groups of people (representative, objective (accurate and avoid bias, using useful assessment tools. Systematic: relates all of its ideas together. Structure: building blocks (units of analysis) Process: changes over time, changes in different situations or stages. Development: growth into how we become who we are. Gathered from someone other than the individual in question. Nomothetic: fixed or standardized, sat, relies on the (cid:448)alidity of the (cid:395)uestions (cid:894)not (cid:396)ele(cid:448)ant to (cid:449)hat it"s t(cid:396)ying to get at(cid:895) Idiographic: flexible, essays, capture the uniqueness of the individual. Face validity: when a test looks like it measures what it says it measures. But there have not been any psychometric tests to solidify its validity. Looks into the usefulness of a theoretical term.
