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| Method: a method is a procedure agreed on by participants of a discussion or research project. In the case of violations of a method, the comparability of the results is in particular questioned, since these no longer come from a set with uniformly defined properties of the elements._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Cognitive Psychology on Method - Dictionary of Arguments
Corr I 401 Method/Cognitive Psychology/Matthews: Studies of personality and performance offer some unique methodological challenges (Robinson 2007)(1). The simplest designs simply correlate a given trait with a given performance index, as we might, for example, test whether Extraversion correlates with simple reaction time. But cognitive psychology derives much of its power as an investigative approach through systematically manipulating task factors to uncover fundamental processing mechanisms. Thus, demonstrations that associations between personality and performance are moderated by task parameters are more informative than simple correlational data. For example, example, studies that show that the detrimental effects of anxiety on performance increase with the memory load of the task (cf., Eysenck 1992)(2) link anxiety specifically to the cognitive processes supporting working memory. Personality psychologists must also address a basic difficulty inherent in cognitive research: that different models may explain the data equally well (the ‘identifiability problem’). >Models/Cognitive Psychology. Thus, to link traits to specific processing mechanisms, it is essential both to have a good theory of the process of interest and to choose carefully task manipulations that will expose individual differences in the process of interest. 1. Robinson, M. D. 2007. Lives lived in milliseconds: using cognitive methods in personality research, in R. W. Robins, R. C. Fraley and R. F. Krueger (eds.), Handbook of research methods in personality psychology, pp. 345–59. New York: Guilford Press 2. Eysenck, M. W. 1992. Anxiety: the cognitive perspective. Hillside, NJ: Erlbaum Gerald Matthews, „ Personality and performance: cognitive processes and models“, in: Corr, Ph. J. & Matthews, G. (eds.) 2009. The Cambridge handbook of Personality Psychology. New York: Cambridge University Press_____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Cognitive Psychology Corr I Philip J. Corr Gerald Matthews The Cambridge Handbook of Personality Psychology New York 2009 Corr II Philip J. Corr (Ed.) Personality and Individual Differences - Revisiting the classical studies Singapore, Washington DC, Melbourne 2018 |
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