125090
Description
Personality Testing
- Objective
- Self-report questionaires
- A method which involves asking a
participant about their feelings,
attitudes, beliefs etc
- Weaknesses
- Patients might also simpy be
mistaken or misremember the
material covered by the survey
- Patients may exaggerate symptoms in order
to make their situation seem worse, or they
may under-report the severity or frequency of
symptoms in order to minimise their problems
- Social desirability bias
- Subjective
- Researchers bias
- Answers open to
interpretation
- Researchers bias
- Misunderstanding
of the question
- Patients might also simpy be
mistaken or misremember the
material covered by the survey
- Strengths
- Participants can describe experiences
in their own words (therefore more
detailed and in-depth data)
- Large quantities of data can be
collected quickly and easily (from a
large number of people as well)
- Participants can describe experiences
in their own words (therefore more
detailed and in-depth data)
- Weaknesses
- A method which involves asking a
participant about their feelings,
attitudes, beliefs etc
- Self-report questionaires
- Projective
- TAT (Thematic Apperception Test)
- Evaluate a person's patterns of
thought, attitudes, observational
capacity, and emotional responses to
ambiguous test materials
- In addition to assessing the content of the
stories that the subject is telling, the
examiner evaluates the subjects manner,
vocal tone, posture, hesitations, and other
signs of an emotional response
- In addition to assessing the content of the
stories that the subject is telling, the
examiner evaluates the subjects manner,
vocal tone, posture, hesitations, and other
signs of an emotional response
- Ambiguous materials
- a set of cards that portray
human figures in a variety
of settings and situations
- a set of cards that portray
human figures in a variety
of settings and situations
- The subject is asked to tell the examiner a
story about each card that includes the
following elements: the event shown in the
picture; what has lead up to it; what the
characters in the picture are feeling and
thinking; and the outcome of the event
- Very Subjective
- Evaluate a person's patterns of
thought, attitudes, observational
capacity, and emotional responses to
ambiguous test materials
- Rorschach inkblot
- Consists of a series of ten inkblots
- Participants asked to describe what they seeq
- Participants asked to describe what they seeq
- Complex scoring systems are used to
interpret the subjects' responses
- Scores are based on various
characteristics of responses,
such as the originality of the
response and the area of the blit
described inthe response
- Scores are based on various
characteristics of responses,
such as the originality of the
response and the area of the blit
described inthe response
- Provides information about the
subjects' personality traits and
the situational stresses the
subject may be experiencing
- Subjective - open
for interpretation
- Consists of a series of ten inkblots
- TAT (Thematic Apperception Test)
- Gordon Allport
- He had lots of questions and
trawled through dictionaries
- He had lots of questions and
trawled through dictionaries
- Cattell
- 16 factor personality test
- His personality test consists of 164
statements about yourself, for each
indicate how accurate it is on the
scale of 1 (disagree) to 5 (agree)
- His personality test consists of 164
statements about yourself, for each
indicate how accurate it is on the
scale of 1 (disagree) to 5 (agree)
- Cattell found that variations in human
personality could be best explained by
a model that has 16 variables
(personality traits), using a statistical
procedure kown as factor analysis
- Warmth, Reasoning, Emotional Stability, Dominance,
Liveliness, Rule-Consciousness, Social Boldness, Sensitivity,
Vigilance, Abstractedness, Privateness, Apprehension,
Openness to Change, Self-Reliance, Perfectionism, Tension
- Warmth, Reasoning, Emotional Stability, Dominance,
Liveliness, Rule-Consciousness, Social Boldness, Sensitivity,
Vigilance, Abstractedness, Privateness, Apprehension,
Openness to Change, Self-Reliance, Perfectionism, Tension
- 16 factor personality test
- McCrae & Costa
- Big Five - Ocean
- Big Five personality traits
are five broad domains or
dimensions of personality
that are used to describe
human personality
- Openness, conscienciousness,
extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism
- Beneath each factor, as cluster of
correlated specific traits found (eg
extraversion includes such related
qualities as gregariousness,
assertiveness, excitement seeking,
warmth, activity, positive emotion)
- Openness, conscienciousness,
extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism
- Comprehensive, empirical,
data-driven research finding
- Big Five personality traits
are five broad domains or
dimensions of personality
that are used to describe
human personality
- Refined the 16 factors to 5
- Big Five - Ocean
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