measurement and validity - Individual differences

Question 1

individual difference psychology

Answer 1

examine how people are similar and how they differ in their thinking, feeling and behaviour

Question 2

what is personality?

Answer 2

dynamic organisation, inside the person, of psychophysical systems that create the persons characteristic patterns of behaviour thoughts and feelings.

Question 3

what are some personality theories

Answer 3

traits vs type theory:
eysnecks
cattells
four humour
psychodynamic
humanistic
behavioural
biological
evolutionary

Question 4

how should you evaluate personality theories

Answer 4

description, explanation, empirical validity, testable concepts, comprehensiveness, parsimony, heuristic value, applied value, cultural context

Question 5

what is intelligence

Answer 5

ability to solve problems or to create products that are valued within one or more cultural setting.

Question 6

what are the two approaches to research?

Answer 6

idiographic: approach based on individual. uniqueness. case studies.
nomothetic: aims to identify those individual difference variables/traits. statistical techniques.