Chapter 5- Exam 1 Flashcards
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Personality assessments
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- not restricted to just psychologists
- most important to know: degree to which the judgement or test is right or wrong
- two criteria: agreement and behavioral prediction
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Objective test
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- a personality test that consists of a list of questions to be answered by the subject as true or false or on a numerical scale
- less open to interpretation
- principle of aggregation
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Projective test
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- a test that presents a person with an ambiguous stimulus and asks him or her to describe what is seen
- person may or may not be aware of the inner processes
- answers are though to reveal inner psychological states, motivations, needs, feelings, experiences
- B data
- Rorschach, draw a person test, thematic apperception test (TAT)
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Implicit association test
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- personality tests
- B data
- people who implicitly, or unconsciously, know they have a certain trait will respond faster when the trait is paired with “me”
5
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MMPI
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- most widely used and widely researched test to assess individuals with psychological disorders
- 338 questions
- 65 and up are considered high
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Basic criteria for personality assessments
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agreement and behavior prediction
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omnibus
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focuses on more than one trait
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one trait
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focuses on one trait
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TAT
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- a projective personality measure designed to evaluate an individual’s dominant drives, emotions, sentiments, complexes and conflicts
- the individual is asked to create a story for each of a set of pictures that portray human figures in a variety of settings and situations
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Rorschach inkblot
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- psychological test in which subjects perceptions of inkblots are recorded and then analyzed using psychological interpretation, complex algorithms, or both
- some use this to examine a person’s personality characteristics and emotional functioning
- been used to detect underlying though disorders, especially in cases where patients are reluctant to describe their thinking processes
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Rational test construction
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- write items that seem directly, obviously, and rationally related to what is to be measured
- based on a theory
- most common
- S data
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Factor analytic test construction
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identifying which items group together by using the statistical technique of factor analysis
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Empirical test construction
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identify items based on how people in pre-identified groups respond
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Big 5 personalities
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openness consciousness extraversion agreeableness neuroticism
