Class Notes (Quiz 2) Flashcards
What are 3 ways to empirically investigate an attribute?
1) Self-Report
2) Stimuli (eg. testing)
3) Behavioral Observation
What type of empirical investigation might you use to examine emotions?
Stimuli to elicit. States.
What type of empirical investigation might you use to examine depression?
Self-report (sometimes can’t observe, can’t elicit)
What type of empirical investigation might you use to examine schizophrenia?
Behavioral observation. Dispositional traits.
3 Types of Items on a test
1) Constructed response (generate own response)
2) Selected response (choose from options)
3) Performance (how well you do)
Technical Concepts
concepts created by a field
Scoring (definition)
Putting numbers to performance based on rules.
The property ‘trinity’
Property-in-general: something common across multiple objects
Individual-property: individual manifestations of property-in-general. Abstracted from object-property
Object-property: The individual-propety of a particular object
What’s tricky about finding individual-propety?
They might have relation with each other. Need to empirically find what that relationships, and the numbers (or numerals) must capture that relationship.
What’s the internal structure of a property?
Instances of a property-in-general and their relations
What’s an attribute?
Example with mass.
A concept that represents a property-in-general
eg. mass represents heaviness
Why do psychological attributes tend to capture multiple properties?
It’s hard (or impossible) to separate the psyche (thoughts, emotions, and desires). They happen together in reality.
3 Types of scaling
Object, Stimulus, or Response scaling.
Scale (definition in measurement)
Rules for assigning numerical values to object-properties or individual-properties
2 Fixed Points. What do fixed points reference?
References to property of interest.
1) 0
2) unit (like SI)
