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Personality Assessment
Theories of Personality
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Psychology
Not Applicable
12/06/2012

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Omnibus inventories
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; measures designed to measure a wide range of personality traits. Includes MMPI, CPI, 16PF
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Objective tests
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s-data
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Performancebased tests
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b-data
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S-data
Definition
ratings that people provide about their own personality attribute or behavior; self-report measures
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B-data
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behavioral data, or direct observations of another’s behavior that are translated directly into numerical form; IQ tests, projective tests
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Projective hypothesis
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if someone is asked to describe or interpret a meaningless, ambiguous stimulus her answer cannot come from the stimulus itself but must be a projection of (come from) her needs, feelings, experiences, thoughts, etc.
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Rorschach
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Rorschach dropped blots of ink onto note cards, folded them in half, and then unfolded them
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TAT
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Tells stories about a set of drawings of people and ambiguous events, 2. Response used to assess motivational state (i.e. if describe the two people as being in love, may reflect a need for intimacy)
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Pros of objective tests
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good "ice breaker"
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Cons of projective tests
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time consuming, expensive, doesn’t provide additional info, subjecive scoring, valid?
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3 methods of objective test construction and associated difficulties
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Rational, factor analysis, empirical
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Rational
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come up with items that seem directly, obviously, and rationally related to what the test developer wishes to measure
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Factor analysis
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statistical method for finding order amid seeming chaos. Designed to identify groups of things (test items) that seem to be alike
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Empirical
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method: gather info, pre-define groups, administer items, compare answers
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Principle of aggregation
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single answer will tend to be unreliable but if a group of similar questions is asked, the average of the answers ought to much more stable or reliable
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Be able to discuss the advantages/disadvantages of giving people
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personality tests and why/in what settings we do give them
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