Personality Assessment

Question 1

Menninger definition of personality

Answer 1

Individual as a while, his height and weight and love and hates and blood pressure and reflexes; it means that anyone is and that he is trying to become

Question 2

Byrne

Answer 2

Psychology’s garbage bin in that any research in which it doesn’t fit other existing categories can be labeled personality

Question 3

Any distinguishable, relatively enduring way in which one individual varies from one another

Answer 3

Personality traits

Question 4

A constellation of traits and states that is similar in pattern to one identified category of personality within a taxonomy of personalities

Answer 4

Personality type

Question 5

Relatively temporary disposition

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Personality states

Ex. State-trait anxiety inventory (distinguish various states from traits)

Question 6

John Holland

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• Self Directed Search test

- Self-administered, scored and interpreted and used to type people accdg. to the system and to offer vocation guidance

Question 7

Myer Friedman and Ray Rosenman

Answer 7

Type A and Type B personality

Question 8

A narrative description, graph, table, etc, of the extent to which a person has demonstrated certain targeted characteristics as a result of the administration or application of tools of assessment

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Profile

Question 9

Who is doing the assessing?

Answer 9

• Self

- third party

Question 10

A process wherein info about assessees is supplied by the assessees themselves

Answer 10

Self-report

• assess self-concept (e.g. Beck Self-Concept test)
• People with low levels of self concept differentiation tend to be healthier psychologically because more coherent sense of self

Question 11

Achenbach Multiaxial Empirically-based Assessment system

Answer 11

• context-depended evaluation
• assessment of children and adolescents that incorporates cognitive and physical assessments of the subject, self-report, and ratings by parents and teachers

Question 12

Testtaker response style which one presents oneself in a favorable light

Answer 12

Socially desirable

Question 13

Testtaker response style which one tends to always agree

Answer 13

Acquiescence

Question 14

Testtaker response style which one tends to always disagree

Answer 14

Nonacquiescence

Question 15

Testtaker response style which one has unusual responses

Answer 15

Deviance

Question 16

Testtaker response style which one answers in opposed to the middle

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Extreme

Question 17

Testtaker response style which one guess or not guess

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Gambling/cautiousness

Question 18

Testtaker response style which one has a self-representation in a superlative manner

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overly positive

Question 19

Attempt to manipulate others impressions through the selective exposure of some info and with suppression of other info

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Impression management

Question 20

How honest the testtaker responded and whether the responses are due to response styles, carelessness, deceit, misunderstanding

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Validity scale

Question 21

California Psychological Inventory

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• theory based

- personality variables such as respnsibility, self-acceptance and dominance

Question 22

The perfect example of a test which is atheoretical

Answer 22

MMPI

*allow test users to impose their own theoretical preferences on the interpretation of findings

Question 23

An item format that has bipolar adjectives separated by a 7pt. rating scale on which respondents select one point to indicate their response

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Semantic differential

Question 24

Defined as aspects of the focus of exploration such as the time frame as well as other contxtual issues involve people, places and events

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Frame of reference

Question 25

An assessment technique to sort a group of statments in perceived rank order ranging from most descriptive to least descriptive

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Q-sort technique

-advocated by Carl rogers (evaluate discrepancy between perceived actual self and ideal self)