Review #1 (Chapter 2)

Question 1

What personality method is the most common and what are the pros and cons?

Answer 1

self report, easy/self efficient, cheap, standardized, self as expert, but is biased, deceptive, limited self insight and social desirability

Question 2

How can self report be improved?

Answer 2

deception, careless questions, longer scales

Question 3

What are the four sources of personality data?

Answer 3

S-data (self), O-data (observer)- T-data (test), L-data (life outcomes)

Question 4

What is correlation and its size interpretation?

Answer 4

the relationship between two variables, trivial (.10)

Question 5

What is reliability? Types?

Answer 5

all items measure the same thing, test-retest: results are similar when tests are taken twice

Question 6

What is validity? Types?

Answer 6

scale measures what its supposed to be measuring, predictive: predict relevant behavior, convergent: related to similar measures, discriminate: doesn’t correlate to unrelated measures

Question 7

What characteristics define an experiment?

Answer 7

correlation, dependent/independent variable, random assignment

Question 8

What practices are used to improve research?

Answer 8

large samples, replication, meta analysis