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DE100 Investigating Psychology Week 5
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- 1Personalitya person's stable and enduring traits and characteristics, which lead them to behave in a steady way over time.
- 2fundamental attribution errorthe tendency to explain the causes of other people's behaviour as a product of their internal characteristics and dispositions rather than external situational factors.
- 3Individual differencesAny characteristics that are susceptible to variation between individuals
- 4Personality TheoryA set of propositions about the structure and/or development of personality that forms the basis of a coherent, evidence-based explenation
- 5Extraversiona personality type characterised by outogoing and gregarious behaviour. it forms an extraversion-introversion continuum with introversion, at the opposite pole, typified by reserved and inward-looking behaviour
- 6PsychoanalysisA set of theories and therapeutic methods exploring the unconscious processes influencing human behaviour
- 7authoritarian personalitya kind of personality typified by obedience to authority strict adherence to rules, and hostitlity towards anyone different from themselves
- 8anti-semitismprejudice and hostility towards jews
- 9fascisma political ideology or regime marked by extreme nationalism and racism, centralisation of authority and the suppression of political opposition.
- 10attitudesa person's beliefs and feelings about issues, events, objects or people, which are thought to influence behaviour.
- 11scalea set of items such as questions on a questionnaire which combine to measure a bigger construct that cannot be measured directly
- 12ethnocentrismbelief in the superiority of one's own ethnic group or culture
- 13F-scalea measure of personality characteristics underpinning potential for fascism
- 14interviewa 'conversation with a purpose', designed to gather in-depth information from research participants.
- 15quantitative datadata that can be measured, counted, or expressed in numerical terms
- 16qualitative datadata that is not in numerical form. There are different kinds of qualitative data such as interview material, newspapers, articles or diaries
- 17acquiscence response biasa tendency to agree with statements presented in scales, regardless of content
- 18confirmatory biasa tendency to pay most attention to those features of a phenomenon that appear to confirm prior expectations
- 19double blinda research design where neither the participants nor the investigator know which group the participants belong to, thus reducing the risk of bias in measures and interpretations.
- 20cognitive stylethe habitual way a person processes information.
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