week 5

Question 1

strengths and weeknesses of projective test

Answer 1

strengths:
- provides qualitative information about individuals personality 
- information can facilitate therapy 
Limitations:
- scoring highly subjective 
- fails to produce consistent results 
- poor at predicting future behaviour

Question 2

strengths and weeknesses of self-report inventories

Answer 2

strengths:
- standardized and use established personality traits
- predict behaviour and employee fit (to some extent)
Weekensses:
- participants may ‘fake’ responses to look better (or worse)
- high number of items leads to loss of interest
- takers not always accurate in self-judgments
- no personality test, by itself, is likely to provide a definitive description of any given individual

Question 3

problems with self report assessment

Answer 3

• creating personality assessments that seem accurate is easy
• it can be unclear if an assessment is accurate
• faking - ppl may fake it to seem better than they are or worse than they are

Question 4

how to prevent faking on a personality test

Answer 4

• correct for social desirability
• behavioural personality tests
• use forced choice response options
• ask for written elaboration
• include warnings that fakers can be caught

Question 5

how to design assessements

Answer 5

• keep it simple
• avoid double-barrelled items (one answer for two questions)
• use neutral or unbiased language
• minimise the use of negative wording
• avoid repetitive responses
• use rating scales consistently
• likert scales (strongly disagree to strongly agree)
• minimise item and sirvey length