Basics of Personality Flashcards
the fastest approach to determining test reliability is the __________ method
split-halves
behaviorism was a revolution against the
study of conscious experiences
one characteristic of all self-report inventories is
objective scoring
a correlation coefficient of -1.00 indicates that
high scores on one variable are accompanied by low scores of another variable
when 2 variables show a high correlation
there may be a cause and effect relationship, but it is not certain
personality refers to human characteristics that are
both external and internal
for personality theories to be useful, they must be
testable
the consistency of responses to a psychological assessment is its
reliability
according to john watson, personality is
an accumulation of learned responses
the test-retest method of establishing test reliability involves
giving the test twice to the same people
freud developed his personality theory by
making clinical observations of his patients
the reliability of a test is concerned with
the consistency of the responses
the rorshach inkblot test
consists of 10 inknlots, which have not been changed
the correlational method helps the researcher investigate
what relationships may exist between variables
compared to self-report inventories, projective personality tests are
less objective, less reliable, and less valid
the type of validity concerned with a tests ability to measure a hypothetical, complex component of behavior is
construct validity
psychology emerged as an independent science as a result of the work of
wilhelm wundt
in thought-sampling assessment procedures
a pesons thoughts are uncovered by projective techniques
in personality theories, ECE are thought to be
very important to some theorists but less important to others
the formal and systematic study of personality theory in American psychology began with
gordon allport
in an experiment, the independent variable is applied only to the
experimental group
to conduct an experiment properly, one must
determine the effect of only one variable on behavior