Chapter 3 PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT

Question 1

Factor analysis

Answer 1

Identifies groups of things - which can be anything from songs to test items - that seem to have something in common. The property that ties these things together is called a factor.

Question 2

Factor analysis has been used to not only

Answer 2

Construct tests but to decide how many fundamental traits exist - how many are truly essential.

Question 3

Empirical method

Answer 3

A strategy of test construction that allows reality to speak for itself

Question 4

1st step of empirical method

Answer 4

Gather lots of items

Question 5

2nd step of empirical method

Answer 5

You need a sample of participants who have already been divided into the groups you are interested in ie happy priests vs miserable or depressed vs normal

Question 6

3rd step of empirical method

Answer 6

Administer your test to participants

Question 7

4th step of empirical method

Answer 7

Compare answers given by different groups, then cross-validate to predict behaviour, diagnosis or put people into a category.

Question 8

The rational method

Answer 8

Come up with items directly, obviously and rationally depending on what you wish to measure

Question 9

Strict rules about how the term significant can be used. A significant result is a result that would be unlikely to appear

Answer 9

If everything were due only to chance