PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Rorschach Test, Raymond Cattell, Thematic Apperception Test

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Christopher Miners

Document Summary

How psychologists explain personality and organize its components mechanisms that may be responsible for differences in personality traits. Personality is a pattern of thinking and interacting that is unique to each individual and remains relatively consistent over time and across situations. Ocean (openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism) . How these theories compare to each other . The same elements that make for good intelligence test standardization, reliability, and validity also. Objective tests the minnesota multiphasic inventory (mmpi-2) is an objective personality test that asks people to answer a series of t/f about themselves. Projective tests rorschach test is the best-known projective test. A series of inkblots, person describes what they see. )t"s projective bc the person may project their personality onto the inkblot. extroversion, o-openness to experience) provides a series of statements that a person agrees or disagrees with on a five-point scale.