PSY-210 Word Scramble
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| Question | Answer |
| Error in psychological studies | Unaccounted for variability. Distraction, fatigue, tired, stressed, etc. |
| Standard Deviation | Measure of error |
| What is a confound? | A variable that has a consistent, unrealized effect on the independent variable that is often mistaken as error. |
| Personality Psychology | Devoted to understanding dispositional characteristics. Myers-Briggs, CPI, and NEO are a few personality tests. LOcus of consistency. Accounted for error by taking a true score |
| What is the Personality Paradox? | How can our intuitions about the stability of personality be reconciled with the evidence for its variability across situations? What is that "error" is meaningful? |
| Power of the Situation | Milgram's shock experiment and Zimbardo's prison experiment |
| Collection of attributes | Conscientiousness, agreeableness, extraversion, neuroticism, openness |
| Organized personalit processing system | Mental representations, stable units of personality, goals, beliefs, expectations, affects, competencies, social learning, biological and cultural history |
| What is CAPS? | cognitive-affective personality system theory, which explains the organized personality processing system. |
| What are CAUs? | Cognitive-affective units, also known as mental representations. They are activated or inhibited by the situation. If...Then... |
| What is social psychology? | Scientific theory of how people think about, influence and related to one another. Understanding how groups effect individuals. SOcial psychology is about explaining the "if". |
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