Topic 11 part 3

Question 1

Self report measure

Answer 1

Asking people about their behaviors

Question 2

MMPI-2 (Minnesota multiphasic personality inventory -2)

Answer 2

567 items - true/false/cannot say

Idetifies people with psychological difficulties (perosnlity disorders)/cna predict everyday behaviors

Question 3

positive tests

Answer 3

Person has sown an ambivogus stimuls and ask to describe it or tell a story about it

Require particular skill & care in interpretation

• Subjective?

Question 4

Behavioral assessment

Answer 4

Measure of an individual behavir used to describe personality characteristics - naturalistcally OR in lab

Should be objective

Particulary appropriate for observing specific behaviour difficulties

Question 5

The dark triad

Answer 5

Nacissism

Machiablellianism

Psychopathy

Question 6

Psychpathy

Answer 6

High impulsivity

High thrill skeeing

Low empathy

Coldness

Callounsess

May have biological roots - gentic & neurological factors

Question 7

Narcissim

Answer 7

Grandiosity

Entitlement

Superiority

Ecessive self love

Excessive desire for admiration & attention

Fragile & low self-esteem

Question 8

Mchiabellianism

Answer 8

Cynical

Unpricnipled

Interpersonal mainpulation

Few emotional attachemnts

Lack of emptahy

Obssed with self

Thrive in environment that require strgetic manipulation but struggle collaborative/empathy driven environments

It is better to be feard than loved, if yu cannot be both

Question 9

Sadism

Answer 9

Tendency to derive pleasure, often sexual, from inflicting pain, humiliation or suffering on others

• Cruel, manipulative or exploitative behavior
• Low agreeablenss & low conscientiousness
• Disinhibited
• Low levels of emotional regulation