PSYB30H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Nocturnal Enuresis, Convergent Validity, Face Validity
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Psyb30 chapter 2: personality assessment, measurement, and research. Self-report data (s-data): the information a person reveals. Can be obtained through a variety of means interviews, periodic reports, questionnaires, etc: most commonly use is the questionnaire method. Individuals have access to a wealth of information about themselves that is inaccessible to anyone else. Individuals can report about feelings, emotions, desires, private experiences, fears, fantasies: they can also report about immediate and long-term goals. Can take a variety of forms: unstructured personality tests: open-e(cid:374)ded (cid:395)uestio(cid:374)s like (cid:862)tell (cid:373)e about the parties (cid:455)ou like the (cid:373)ost(cid:863) Personality instruments using unstructured tests require coding schemes for classifying the responses they obtain. Ps(cid:455)(cid:272)hologists (cid:373)ust de(cid:448)ise a (cid:449)a(cid:455) to s(cid:272)o(cid:396)e o(cid:396) i(cid:374)te(cid:396)p(cid:396)et the pa(cid:396)ti(cid:272)ipa(cid:374)t(cid:859)s ope(cid:374)- ended responses: structured pe(cid:396)so(cid:374)alit(cid:455) tests: fi(cid:454)ed (cid:395)uestio(cid:374)s like (cid:862)i like (cid:272)(cid:396)o(cid:449)ed pa(cid:396)ties t(cid:396)ue o(cid:396) false(cid:863) Simplest form involves a series of trait-descriptive adjectives (ex. Simplest way to present these terms is a checklist, like the adjective check list (acl)
