PSYCH356 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Positron Emission Tomography, Electrodermal Activity, Gerald Patterson
18 Jun 2013
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A science begins by creating a language to describe a phenomena in a way that allows a single common understanding to emerge, in order to avoid multiple alternative accounts that vary with each observer. To convert personality speculations about people into ideas that can be studied scientifically, researchers must be able to put them into testable terms using good measures. Central goal of personality psychology is to figure out how these diverse aspects about an individual relate to each other and help us to understand what is going on in the individual as a whole. Interview(oldest method): a verbal exchange between the participant and the examiner, favoured particularly by workers at the psychodynamic. Motivational level and those at the phenomenological level. Interviews usefulness as an assessment tool depends on many considerations including how the interview is guided and structured, and how the interviewee"s responses are recorded, coded and interpreted.
