PSY 0160 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Random Assignment, Nomothetic, Open Data Protocol
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L-data: (cid:272)a(cid:374) (cid:271)e o(cid:271)tai(cid:374)ed fro(cid:373) a perso(cid:374)"s life history or life re(cid:272)ord. Fixed measures: same thing is administered to all participants. Flexible measures: do something other than giving all people the same questions. Eeg: records electrical activity in the brain fmri: imaging brain activity while participant is engaged in a task. Personality assessment: sta(cid:374)dardized pro(cid:272)edure for lear(cid:374)i(cid:374)g a(cid:271)out a(cid:374) i(cid:374)dividual"s perso(cid:374)ality and measuring differences in personality among people in a population. Targets of personality assessment: average behavior, variability in behavior, conscious thought, unconscious mental events. Validity: extent to which the observations actually reflect the phenomena of interest in a given study. To gain an understanding about the unique qualities of the individual. Help think of new research questions to test. Rely on subjective impressions of the researcher. Correlation coefficient: the degree= to which two variables go together. Positive correlation: if one variable goes up, so does the other. Negative correlation: if one variable goes up, the other goes down.
