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Theories of Personality
Chapter 2
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Psychology
Undergraduate 3
06/16/2009

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L-data
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Consists of info that can be obtained from a person's life history or life record. (school grades)
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O-data
Definition
Consists of info provided by knowledgeable observers such as parents, friends or teachers.
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T-data
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Consists of info obtained from experimental procedures or stadardized tests.
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S-data
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Consists of info provided by the subject himself or herself.
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Nomothetic (strategy)
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Primary goal in research is to find a common set of principles or laws that apply to everyone.
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Idiographic (strategy)
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Primary goal is to obtain a portrait of the potentially unique individual
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Reliability
Definition
Extent to which observations can be replicated.
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Validity
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Extent to which observations actually reflect the thing of interest in a given study.
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Case Study
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Studies an in-depth analysis case of a person
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Correlational research
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Used to gauge the degree to which two variables go together.
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Correlation coefficient
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A number that reflects the degree to which two measures are linearly related.
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Response styles
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The tendency for a person to respond to questions in a consistant and patterned way
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Demand Characteristics
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Cues that are hidden in the experimental setting and influence the subject's behavior.
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