PSY 235 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Likert Scale, Validity Scale, Barnum Effect
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Psy 235 - chapter 2 - personality psychology: understanding yourself and others. Self-report questionnaires: the most common way to measure personality. Questionnaires are the most common way to test personality. Self-report measure - questionnaires that ask participants to report on their own personalities. Desirable responding - lying on a questionnaire to make self look better. Can happen even when questionnaires are anonymous. Participants may not know how to answer certain questions. Questionnaires are limited to their own personal assessment of. Reverse-scored items - answers that are scored in the opposite direction from the themselves responses. Acquiescence response set - participants that have the tendency to agree with everything on a questionnaire. Likert scale - range of numbers that correspond to how much a participant agrees or disagrees with an item. Correlations: what you need to know to understand the research. Correlation - measures a relationship between two things. Positive when one variable is high, so is the other.