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Measuring Personality - Coggle Diagram

- - - - acquiescence bias: tendency to agree
      - nay saying: tendency to disagree
      - midpoint responding
    - - remove midpoint when appropriate
      - include reverse scored items however, this can confuse p's
  - - - include lie detector items
      - make all options undesirable
- - - - p's turned up to take part in study for course credit and falsely told their name wasn't on list
      - their responses were recorded as a measure of A
    - - p's given untimed computer task that required accuracy and their speed was taken as a measure of C
      - the slower the speed means they're more careful
    - - p's did horrendously demanding WM task and when they made mistakes they were scolded by experimenter
      - stress related reactions made were rated as a measure of N
    - - p's asked about experiences of the study by a researcher
      - time spent answering q's was taken as a measure of E
- - - - non-systematic variation in test score
      - equally likely to score slightly higher or lower
      - increasing no. of items can account for this
      - human error
    - - test score always higher or lower than true score
      - increasing no. of items does not help
      - response set bias, socially desirable responding and faking
- - - - some correlation
      - some traits correlated more strongly with behavioural measures than IAT measure
      - suggests some measures might be suited better to different traits