Personality Psych Exam 1

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trait

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a consistent characteristic (can be personality or physical)

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operationalization

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the process of defining an ambiguous concept so that it can measured

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linguistic relatively

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language influences perception

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the big five

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extraversion, neuroticism, conscientiousness, agreeableness, openness

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kin selection

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we want to help out our family members to pass on our genes

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reciprocal altruism

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one person helps another person in exchange for future help

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social homogamy

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mates choose each other due to selected environment proximity (i.e. religious beliefs)

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convergence

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mates become more similar to each other

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fitness

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a measure of relative reproductive success

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isolation

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do those things go together separate from something else that could cause it

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association

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does one thing tend to go with something else

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direction

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does the thing we think is causal come first

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meta-analysis

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researchers compile estimates of effect size across many studies, not just their own, look at lots of small studies

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mega-analysis

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researchers gather a very large sample (100,000 or more)

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statistical significance

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we will find something by chance 5% of the time

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sampling error

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no matter how good our study is, our sample isn't a perfect representation of the world

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scientific method

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theory-> hypothesis-> prediction-> test-> refine theory->repeat/replicate

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reliability

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independent assessments must agree

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validity

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ratings must reflect attributes of targets, assessments must predict behaviors and real world ourcomes

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type

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a category whose members share one or more characteristic

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3 dimensions of the MBTI

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perceiving (sensation and intuition), judging (thinking and feeling) attitude types (extraversion and introversion)

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dopamine

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neurotransmitter involved in reward-motivated behavior

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Parkinson's

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degenerative CNS disorder caused by death of cells that produce dopamine

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Long 7R variant

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thought that people who have seven versions of this dype of DRD4 gene are more likely to engage in sensation seeking behavior, but there's no consistent evidence

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test data

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in lab, experimental, objective

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life-outcome data

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observational, objective (when did you get married, die, etc.)

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observer-report data

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observational, subjective (ask other people to tell us about you)

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self-report data

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observational, subjective, most common

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test-retest reliability

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similar assessment at different points in time

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inter-rater reliability

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agreement among multiple observers

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internal consistency

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correlation among separate items within a single measure

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face validity

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sounds like it measures what it claims to

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convergent validity

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correlated to other measures of the same construct

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discriminant validity

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uncorrelated with theoretically separate constructs

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construct validity

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overall evaluation of all the individual types of validity

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principle of aggregation

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sum of multiple measures is more reliable and valid than any one of those measures along