Chapter 2 Flashcards

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self-reporting questionnaire

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most common way to measure personality

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personality assessment

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asks people to report their personalities, use adjectives or agreement with statements (Likert scale)

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what is the largest negative about personality assessments

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prone to socially desirable responding

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how accurate are people at reporting own personalities

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it depends on the person

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response bias

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responding in inaccurate ways, not always conscious, personalities can influence

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social desirability bias

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people self report in better light, more positives and less negatives

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agreement/acquiescence bias

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select positive responses all the time, reverse-score to prevent

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reverse-scored

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statements worded in the opposite direction

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acquiescence

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agree to everything

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correlation (r)

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measures statistical relationship between two variables, positive or negative

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null correlation

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two variables are not related (not statistically significant), correlation of zero

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statistical significance

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when probability of happen by random chance is less that 5%

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what does reliability tell us?

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if a scale is a reliable, gives consistent result each time or consistently measuring the same thing

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internal reliability

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when all items on scale report same concept, use Cronbach’s alpha statistic, 0.60 or more

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Cronbach’s alpha statistic

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average correlation between items

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test-retest reliability

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taking test at two different times produces similar results, at least 0.70, shows makes same results over time

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intercoder reliability

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when assessment involves writing samples/behaviors, indicates correlation between coders’ ratings

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validity

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measures what it is supposed to measure

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face validity

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items appears to measure what they are supposed to

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predictive validity

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measure is related to concrete behavior or outcome

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convergent validity

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scale correlates with similar scales

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discriminant validity

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scale doesn’t correlate with unrelated scales

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Horoscope example with validity and reliability

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sign is consistent (reliable) but not valid because does not correlate well, discriminant and convergent validity

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Barnum’s effect

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people’s tendency to believe vague, positive statements about themselves

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using statistics to understand personality
descriptive statistics allow for comparison of scores (normal curve)
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Marlowe-Crowne measures social desirability responding
responses show how people present in public
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What are the alternatives to self-reporting questionnaires
informant reports, clinical interviews, measuring behavior, archival outcome data, projective tests, physiological measures
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informant reports
when others report on someone's personality (when person may lie, used for children)
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clinical interview
assess abnormal levels of personality that make personality disorder (unstructured, semi-structured, fully structured - best format depends)
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unstructured interview
interviewer can as any question in any order they want
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semi-structured interview
interviewer must ask specific questions but can also ask follow ups
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fully structured interview
interviewer can only ask specific questions in a specific order
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projective tests (psychodynamic)
measures designed to elicit personality characteristics without directly asking, Rorschach inkblot, thematic apperception test (tell story by picture)
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triangulation
using different research methods to answer same question, should correlate and show convergent validity (self report + other report + lab assessment = personality)
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mi
mediating variable, where x is correlated to mi which is correlated to y, not x to y
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correlational studies
relationship between characteristics, confounding variables, not causation
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experiment
cause and effect, random assignments to experimental and control
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longitudinal study
collects data from same people over time, help with direction of causality but still correlation
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ethics for research
informed consent, truthful reporting, Institutional Review Boards have guidelines
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getting accurate results
large enough sample (150-200), calculate number of people necessary with power analysis
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meta-analysis
study of studies that analyzes all results together
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many labs approach
findings are stronger when obtained in many different labs
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open practices
higher transparency, should give roadmap for others to check their work (some academic badges)
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open science
Center for Open Science, Open Science Framework, state goals before starting then gets linked when published, Harvard Data Repository is online database