Scientific Approaches to Personality

Intro to personality exam 1

S-data

Self-judgement (the person tells you about themselves)

I-data

Informant report (someone else who knows the person rates them)

L-data

Life data (real-life outcomes such as health, education, work, marriage)

B-data

Behavioral data (actual behavior, performance, or physiological measurements)

Reliability

Consistency. (Does this measure give consistent results?)

Validity

Accuracy. (Is this actually measuring what it claims to measure?)

Experimental research

Manipulation, random assignment. Determines causation

Correlational

Measures relationships between variables. Not causation.