Chapter 10: Personality - Module 34: Assessing Personality Flashcards
What are psychological test, and what do they require?
Standard measures devised to assess behaviour objectively.
They require reliability and validity (p. 400)
What is reliability in a psychological test?
Yielding consistent results each time. (p. 401)
What is validity in psych tests?
Measuring what it’s supposed to. (p. 401)
What are psychological tests based on?
Norms, standards of performance that permit comparisons of one person’s score with another person’s.
This uses typical scores from large numbers of people. (p. 401)
T/F: Self-report measures ask about a relatively small sample of peoples behaviours.
True. (p. 402)
What are downsides of self-report measures?
Limited reliability and validity. (p. 403)
Also, it can be abused, such as by employers who apply it for screening and interpret it improperly. (p. 405)
What is one of the top examples of a self-report measure, originally used to identify people with psychological difficultues?
MMPI-2 (Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2) (p. 403)
How is test standardization carried out?
Psychiatric patients with diagnosed conditions completed a large number of the items, then compared them with a group of normal participants. They identified the most differentiating factors, and put this on the final test. (p. 404)
T/F: Norms and test standardization are the same thing?
I think it’s false (p. 404, 401)
What do you call methods where a person is shown an ambiguous stimulus and asked to describe or tell a story about it?
Projective personality tests. (p. 405)
Eg. Rorsach test. (p. 406)
What is a major downside to projective tests likes the Rorsach test?
They require a lot of skill and care in their interpretation, perhaps too much. (p. 406)
What are behvioural assessments?
Direct measures of an individual’s behaviour designed to be describe characteristics indicative of personality. (p. 406)
