Personality assessment, measurement, and research methods |  |
Learning ObjectivesUpon completing this chapter, you will be able to:
| Describe and provide examples of the four sources of data collected by personality psychologists: Self-report data (S-data), Observer-reports data (O-Data), Test-data (T-data), and Life-outcome data (L-data). |
| Identify the strengths and weaknesses of each source of personality data. |
| Discuss how each source of data can provide information not provided by the other sources of data. |
| For O-data, discuss the problems of selecting observers, naturalistic versus artificial observations, immediate versus retrospective observations, and molar versus molecular observations. |
| For T-data, discuss the strengths and weaknesses of mechanical recording devices and physiological recording devices, and provide examples of each type of device. |
| For T-data, discuss and provide examples of projective techniques, including identifying the strengths and weaknesses of these sources of data. |
| Discuss the conditions under which one might expect links among different sources of data, and how the presence or absence of these links can be interpreted. |
| Define reliability, including a discussion of test-retest reliability, alternate forms reliability, and internal consistency reliability. |
| Define validity, including a discussion of face validity, predictive validity, convergent validity, discriminative validity, and construct validity. |
| Define and discuss generalizability, including a discussion of the different "contexts" to which a measure might be generalizable. |
| Describe and provide examples of the three types of research methods used by personality psychologists: experimental methods, correlational designs, and case studies. |
| Identify the strengths and weaknesses of each type of research method |
| Identify and discuss when it might be appropriate to use one of the three research methods instead of the others. |
| Discuss how each type of research method can provide information not provided by the other research methods. |
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