(6 total points) Imagine that you find a correlation between…
3. (6 total points) Imagine that you find a correlation between married couples’ emotional instability (neuroticism) and relationship quality of -.40. Use the Binomial Effect Size Display to calculate the size of this correlation in terms of above-and below-average emotional instability and relationship quality. Then, please help me with a sentence describing the results in terms of above-average/below-average emotional instability and relationship quality. (3 points for the correct numbers, 3 points for describing result correctly).
4. (12 total points) Now imagine that “situationists” from the late 1960s heard about your findings from the prior question – the association of -.40 between neuroticism and relationship quality. What 3 claims did they make about these sorts of findings? (2 point for each claim). And what responses were made by personality psychologists to each of these claims? (6 points).
