It started with a comment in this post from Carmen. She informed me about ICP (International Congress of Psychology). Then I just search for my old paper and without any consideration (about the quality of my paper ) I sent them away. I already forgot it when suddenly last week there was this email from ICP that said it is accepted as a poster for the congress. Yay!!!
A little bit sad though.. not accepted as oral presentation, but I think it’s good enough for now . And after I think about it, with poster there will be more people have access to my paper compared to oral presentation.

Thank you to ICP committee for embracing this paper. Thank you for my parent, Mom I love you so much! Thank you for my producer, my song writer and most of all, thank you to the people all around the world who have been touched by my song… Wait… wait… WAKE UP! This is not Grammy Award!!!



Then I guess… see you soon for the 29th International Congress of Psychology 2008 (ICP 2008). I will present my paper there (as poster) and answer some questions about it. So… anyone wants to join me?
Thank you Carmen for the informative comment, nu pot sa fac fara tine .

Sneek peak at my paper.

This article is basically ripped off from Field’s Discovering Statistics Using SPSS for Windows with some minor subjective interpretation from me. So if you have access to the book just read it instead of this article. It is really a good book for you who want to learn SPSS and statistics. Highly recommended book !

Factor analysis was first used in 1904 by Charles Spearman, a Psychologist
from United Kingdom. Spearman used factor analysis in his models of human
intelligence. With factor analysis he developed theory that variety of cognitive test
could all be explained by one single factor which called g factor. Later on Raymond
Cattell, psychologist from US, used factor analysis in most of his research on
intelligence which lead to the development of his theory on Fluid and Crystallized
Intelligence. 16 Personality Factor (16PF) test is also one of Raymond Cattell’s
research results based on factor analysis.

Factor analysis is quiet different to other statistical analysis method. Many
statistical analysis methods are used to investigate the relation between
independent and dependent variables. In contrast, factor analysis is used to study
the patterns of relationship among many dependent variables, with the goal of
discovering something about the nature of independent variables that affect them.
The tricky part is that those independent variables were not measure directly. Thus
answers obtained by factor analysis are necessarily more hypothetical and tentative
than is true when independent variables are observed directly (Darlington, 1997).

Factor analysis in psychology is most often associated with intelligence
research. Nevertheless, the use of factor analysis can be observed in other domain
of psychology such as personality, attitudes, etc. The trait theorists in psychology
have been used factor analysis to measure personality traits. The Extraversion-
Introversion and the Neuroticism traits by Eysenck and 16 Personality Factor
questionnaires (16 PF) by Cattell are some of the examples of implementation of
Factor Analysis (Field, 2000). Furthermore, factor analysis is used widely in other
social sciences, education, business fields, biological science, etc.



The main applications of factor analytic techniques are: (1) to reduce the
number of variables and (2) to detect structure in the relationships between variables, that is to classify variables. Therefore, factor analysis is applied as a data
reduction or structure detection method (Statsoft, 2003). Reducing the number of
variables means reducing complexity of data, thus it will be easier to analyze the
data…

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Dimuat dalam: Buletin Psikologi Fakultas Psikologi UGM Th IX no 2

Kemunculan psikologi evolusioner didorong oleh keprihatinan bahwa perkembangan teori-teori psikologi sedang dalam situasi morat-marit (Buss, 1995a). Secara lebih khusus, Buss menjelaskan bahwa cabang-cabang psikologi seperti psikologi kognitif, psikologi sosial, psikologi perkembangan, psikologi kepribadian, dan psikologi budaya berkembang terpisah satu sama lain. Para pakar psikologi dari satu cabang psikologi saja bahkan tidak mampu mencapai konsensus. Teori-teori skala mini semakin menjamur namun teori-teori tadi tak berkaitan satu sama lain. Masing-masing teori hanya mampu menjelaskan serangkaian gejala tertentu. Meskipun pakar psikologi memiliki asumsi bahwa pikiran manusia merupakan suatu kesatuan yang bersifat menyeluruh dan terpadu, namun belum ada satu metateori yang memadukan, menyatukan atau menghubungkan berbagai gejala yang berbeda yang diteliti oleh ahli psikologi. Psikologi evolusioner akan menjadi satu paradigma teoretis baru yang menawarkan satu metateori bagi psikologi ( Buss, 1995a, h. 1)….

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