PSYCO333 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Statistical Inference, Descriptive Statistics, Random Assignment
24 Jul 2016
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Observe others: less prone to error, may be misinterpreted. Depth (1/few people: personology: understand whole person, not parts. Pros: natural setting, follow what seems interesting: experience sampling / diary studies. Idiographic method (idiosyncratic): a lot of info about one person, look for patterns across diff situations. Generality (many people: generality/generalizability how widely a conclusion can be applied to other people, college students have incomplete sense of self, usa and western europe popular for personality studies, a continuum. Either know a lot about a small amount of people or a little about a large amount of people. Variable: dimension along which there are variations. Keep in mind: conclusions about relationships involve the whole variable, not just one end: can"t study low self-esteem by only looking at people with low self-esteem. 2 kinds of variable relationships: correlation and causation. 1. 0 (perfect -) 0 (no correlation) 1. 0 (perfect +)
