Ch 2 - Basic Sources Of Data

Question 0

What is Funder’s Third Law?

Answer 0

Something beats nothing, two times out of three.

Question 1

What is Funder’s Second Law?

Answer 1

There are no perfect indicators of personality; there are only clues, and clues are always ambiguous.

Question 2

What is SILB?

Answer 2

S Data: Self-Reports -Ask the person to evaluate their own personality

I Data: Informants’ Reports -Interview acquaintances for their evaluations

L Data: Life Outcomes - See how the person is faring in life

B Data: Behavioral Observations - You watch the person as directly as you can

Question 3

What is S Data?

Answer 3

Self judgements

Question 4

What is the principle behind S data?

Answer 4

The worlds best expert about your personality is probably you.

Question 5

The questionnaires used to gather S data have what is card face validity, they are intended to measure.. what?

Answer 5

What they are intended to measure what they seem to measure, taken at face value.

(Ask questions that are directly and obviously related to the construct they are designed to measure)

Question 6

What are the most common basis for personify assessment?

Answer 6

S Data

Question 7

What are the advantages to S Data?

Answer 7

1. A large amount of information
2. Access to thoughts, feelings, and intentions.
3. Definitional truth
4. Casual force (Self-verification)
5. Simple and easy

Question 8

What are the four disadvantages to S Data?

Answer 8

1. Maybe they won’t tell you
2. Maybe they can’t tell you (because they are delusional about their personality)
3. Too simple and too easy

Question 9

What is I Data?

Answer 9

Informant; Judgements by knowlrdgeable informants about general attributes of the individuals personality, such as traits.

Question 10

What is an important thing to remember about I Data?

Answer 10

They are derived from somebody observing somebody else in whatever context that happen to have encountered them and then rendering general opinion.

Question 11

What are the advantages of I Data?

Answer 11

1. Large amount of information.
2. Real world basis
3. Common sense
4. Definitional truth
5. Casual force - Reputation

Question 12

Why does reputation matter so much?

Answer 12

The opinions that others have of your personality greatly affect both your opportunities and expectancies.0

Question 13

Disadvantages of I Data?

Answer 13

1. Limited behavioral information
2. Lack of access to private experience
3. Error- informants are only human
4. Bias - potentially important

Question 14

What is L Data?

Answer 14

Life outcome; Verifiable, concrete, real life outcomes that may hold psychological significance

Question 15

Advantages of L Data?

Answer 15

1. Objective and verifiable
2. Intrinsic importance
3. Psychological relevance - non psychological factors influence it, criminal data
4. Multi determination - many causes, difficult to establish direct connections

Question 16

What is B Data?

Answer 16

Behavioral Data; the information recorded from direct observation