L 4&5- Measurement and Taxonomies

Question 1

4 types of data used for personality

Answer 1

1) Self report
2) Life outcome data
3) Informant report
4) Situational test data

Question 2

2 types of S data (self-report)

Answer 2

Interview, questionnaires

Question 3

2 types of questionaires and definitions

Answer 3

personality questionnaires/inventories (behaviours, thoughts and feelings)
adjective checklist (rating on a trait)

Question 4

when would self report not be appropriate?

Answer 4

infants, brain damage

Question 5

types of systematic error in SR

Answer 5

response sets (acquiescence), intermediate responding, impression management, self-deception

Question 6

2 types of situational test data

Answer 6

1) naturalistic
2) artificial

Question 7

Types of behaviour to infer personality in test data (4)

Answer 7

social behaviour, motor function, physiological measures, projective techniques

Question 8

2 ways to pick items for self report construction

Answer 8

1) Rational approach (most common)
2) Empirical/criterion approach

Question 9

3 types of validity

Answer 9

face, criterion/predictive, constsruct validity

Question 10

ways to measures construct validity (2)

Answer 10

Convergent validity
Discriminant validity

Question 11

3 taxonomic approaches to defining P traits

Answer 11

Lexical, theoretical, F.A.

Question 12

Who coined the lexical hypothesis?

Answer 12

Galton

Question 13

Eysnick’s 4 tiered approach was developed using which taxonomic method?

Answer 13

F.A

Question 14

Define Bandwidth Fidelity Delimma

Answer 14

Losing information and variance when describing w dimensions instead of traits

Question 15

Name a model that uses theoretical AND F.A

Answer 15

Eysenck’s 3 factor model

Question 16

Name a model that uses lexical and F.A

Answer 16

5 factor model (costa and mcrae)

Question 17

Eysenck’s level 4 is equivalent to Spearman’s what?

Answer 17

“Few ultimate functional unities”

Question 18

What validity does validity coefficient measure and what is it’s definition?

Answer 18

Criterion validity/predictive validity.
Relationship between test scores and external factor (ie performance at job, health outcome, etc)

Question 19

temperment research replicates 3 or 5 factor?

Answer 19

3

Question 20

temperament research uses which 2 sources of data

Answer 20

informant report and situational test data

Question 21

how many primary temperaments does rothbarts children behaviour questionaire indentify?

Answer 21

15

Question 22

what are rothbart’s 3 higher order traits?

Answer 22

Negative Affectivity → Neuroticism
* Extraversion/Surgency → Extraversion
* Effortful Control → partial inverse of Psychoticism