Personality Assessment

Question 1

define personality

Answer 1

an individual’s unique collection of psychological traits that is stable over time

Question 2

john holland argued that most people can be categorized as one of the following six personality types

Answer 2

realistic, investigative, artistic, social, enterprising, conventional

Question 3

meyer friedman and ray rosenmam

Answer 3

type A: competitiveness, dominance
type B: mellow, laidback

Question 4

a 52 item self report used to type respondents as Type A or Type B

Answer 4

jenkins activity survey

Question 5

what does STAI ask the test takers to do?

Answer 5

the state-trait anxiety inventory contains short descriptive statements and asks the test takers to indicate (1) how they feel rn and (2) how they feel generally

Question 6

BST

Answer 6

beck self-concept test
respondents were asked to compare themselves to other people on certain variables

Question 7

PIC

Answer 7

personality inventory for children
the child is the subject where the parents are interviewed in reference to the child’s behavior

Question 8

test taker response styles

Answer 8

tendency to respond to a test item or interview question in some characteristic manner

Question 9

impression management

Answer 9

attempt to manipulate others’ impressions “through the selective exposure of some information coupled with the suppression of other information”

Question 10

a subscale of a test designed to assist in judgements regarding how honestly the test taker responded. takes into account response styles, carelessness, efforts to deceive, unintentional misunderstanding

Answer 10

validity scales

Question 11

CPI

Answer 11

california personality inventory
yield info on many personality-related variables

Question 12

I-E scale

Answer 12

a test designed to measure a personality variable called locus of control