Individual differences and correlations Flashcards
1
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explicit assumptions
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research attempts to explore the source and meaning of psychological differences
2
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implicit assumptions
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attempting to understand an individual, making mental health diagnosis
3
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interindividual differences
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exist between people
4
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intraindividual differences
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emerge to understand an individual, making mental health diagnosis
5
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central tendency
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score most representative of the entire distribution
6
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variability
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differences among scores within a distribution
7
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summarise computing variance in three steps -
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- find deviation from the mean for each score in distribution
- square each deviation
- compute the mean of squared deviations
8
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considerations for interpreting variance or standard deviation
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- neither one can be less than 0
- cannot simply interpret as ‘small’ or ‘large’
- variance of distribution is most interpretable and meaningful when it is put into context
