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| ; measures designed to measure a wide range of personality traits. Includes MMPI, CPI, 16PF |
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| ratings that people provide about their own personality attribute or behavior; self-report measures |
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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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| 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 dropped blots of ink onto note cards, folded them in half, and then unfolded them |
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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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| 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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| come up with items that seem directly, obviously, and rationally related to what the test developer wishes to measure |
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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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| method: gather info, pre-define groups, administer items, compare answers |
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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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