You've got personality
The largest and most dominant approach in personality psychology today.
Trait
The LEAST expensive to collect.
S-data
What type of statistic is depicted with a scatter plot?
a correlational coefficient
Funder’s First Law predicts that these type of people that work hard and get a lot done may also miss out on much of the fun in life.
conscientious
The goal of a scientific education is to
question what is known and learn how to find out what is not yet known.
Why might it be relatively difficult to create a reliable measure of attitudes toward lumbar tariffs compared to other topics like health care or abortion?
People don't care about that topic as much.
Researchers studying personality___________ apply the insights and methods derived from the study of perception, memory, and thought to the study of personality.
processes
Experimental psychologists typically collect this type of data.
B-data
This research strategy tinvolves gathering as many different measurements as you can of a particular construct and determining if those measurements correlate
construct validation.
The reason personality psychologists have not combined all paradigms into One Big Theory.
A theory that tries to explain everything would probably not provide the best explanation for any one thing.
If self-judgments concern characteristics that are extremely desirable or extremely undesirable, signs of psychological problems, or reflect your biggest faults, what is a better type of data to collect?
I-data
According to Cronbach and Meehl’s (1955) terminology, psychological attributes such as intelligence and sociability are examples of ________, whereas an IQ test and an extraversion questionnaire are examples of specific tests or measurements.
constructs
This famous psychologist claimed that behaviorism explained everything about psychology and believed that people did not have traits, thoughts, or free will.
B.F. Skinner
When a psychologist asks a question because he or she wants to know the answer, the question elicits ________-data. When a psychologist asks a question because he or she wants to see how the individual will respond to that stimulus, the test elicits ________-data.
S; B
Imagine that you could draw a flat horizontal line through the points on a scatter plot depicting the relation between X and Y. Which of the following is the closest value to the correlation coefficient that you would compute from these data?
0