Personality Flashcards
According to him, personality is the most adequate conceptualization of a person’s behavior in all its detail.
McClelland, 1951
He defined personality as an individual as a whole, his height and weight and love and hates and blood pressure and reflexes; it means all that anyone is and that he is trying to become.
Menninger, 1953
Personality, as he defined is an individual’s constellation of psychological traits relatively that is stable over time.
Byrne
Measurement and evaluation of psychological traits, states, values, interests attitudes, worldview, acculturation, sense of humor, cognitive and behavioral style and/or related individual characteristics.
Personality Assessment
Any distinguishable, relatively enduring way in which one individual varies from another.
Personality Traits
A constellation of traits that is similar in pattern to one identified category of personality within a taxonomy of personalities.
Personality Types
Relatively temporary disposition.
States
A process wherein info about assessees is supplied by the assessees themselves.
Self report
One’s attitudes, beliefs, opinions and related thoughts about oneself.
Self-concept
The method for assessment of personality, behavior of both involves reporting by a third party.
Another person as the referent
To respond to a test item or interview question in some manner, regardless of the content of the item/question.
Response Style
The selective exposure of some information or suppression of other information.
Impression management
Subscale of a test designed to assist in judgments regarding how honestly the test takers responded.
Validity scale
Where are personality assessments conducted?
Traditional sites
Natural settings
What are traditional sites?
Schools
Clinics
Hospitals
Academic Research Laboratories
Employment counseling
Vocational selection centers
Offices of psychologists and counselors
What are natural settings?
Assessee’s own home
Assessee’s prison cell
What does locus mean?
Place or site
A person’s perception about the source of things that happen to him or her.
Locus of control
People with this see themselves largely responsible for what happens to them.
Internal locus of control
People with this attribute what happens to them to external factors.
External locus of control
What are some procedures and item formats?
Face to face interview
Computer administered tests
Behavioral observation
Paper and pencil tests
Evaluation of case history data
Evaluation of portfolio data
The interview will follow an interview guide.
Structured interview
The assessor was attempting to learn something about the assessee by handwriting analysis.
Graphology
Defined as aspects of the focus of exploration such as the time frame as well as other contextual issues that involve people, places and events.
Frame of reference
An assessment technique by Stephenson, to sort a group of statements ranging from most descriptive to least descriptive.
Q-sort technique
Scoring and interpretation characterized by efforts to learn how a limited number of personality traits can be applied to all people.
Nomothetic approach
Scoring and interpretation characterized by efforts to learn about each individual’s unique constellation of personality traits.
Idiographic Approach
What are the 3 approaches to scoring and interpretation?
Nomothetic approach
Idiographic Approach
No attempt to characterize a person according to any particular set of traits.
Logic and reason in the development of test items is referred to as the _ approach.
Content or content oriented approach
A typical companion to logic, reason and intuition in item development.
Research
What are the developing instruments to assess personality?
Logic & Reason
Theory
This method is to aid identification of the minimum number of variables or factors that account for intercorrelations on observed phenomena.
Data Reduction Method
Data reduction methods include several types of statistical techniques collectively known as _.
Factor or cluster analysis
A standard on which a judgment or decision can be made.
Criterion