PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Thematic Apperception Test, Projective Test, Extraversion And Introversion
12 Jun 2018
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Week 17: Personality
Topic 01: Measuring Personality
• Personality: A particular pattern of behaviour and thinking that prevails across time and
situations and differentiates one person from another
• Four different personality perspectives: trait, psychodynamic, humanistic and social-cognitive
• Personality Assessments:
o Objective Tests:
▪ Minnesota Multiphasic Inventory (MMPI-2): Asks people to answer a series of
true/false questions about themselves
▪ NEO Personality Inventory (Neuroticism, Extroversion and Openness to
experience): Provides statements that a person agrees or disagrees with on a
five-point scale
o Projective Tests:
▪ Rorschach Test: A series of ink blots are presented, and the person describes
what he/she sees in the ink blot
o Other Tests:
▪ Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI): identifies personality types and cognitive
styles, popular with dating sites yet has limited reliability and validity
▪ Thematic Apperception Test (TAT): a projective test in which a person makes up
stories about a series of ambiguous pictures presented. The idea is that the
person will project their personality onto the made-up story.
• The Trait Perspective: traditional approach that classifies and describes psychological
characteristics by which people differ consistently between situations and over time
• Factor Analysis: Statistical analysis that examines all of the correlations between all the items
and determines if any of them are highly correlated with each other
• Factors: A general type or category that contributes to an outcome
• 16 PF Questionnaire: Multiple- choice personality questionnaire developed by Caltell to measure
the 16 normal adult personality dimensions
o Critis fid it’s too ople ad otais a redudat personality traits
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• The Big Five: Five personality dimensions derived from analyses of the nature language terms
people use to describe themselves and others
o Opeess to eperiee: Desries a idiidual’s illigess to partiipate i e
experiences, having a wide set of interests and being creative/imaginative
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Someone who is described as being high on this factor tends to show anxiety. His theory was one of the first to suggest a structural framework for the unconscious and thus was important at the time of its publication: freud proposed three parts of the mind: Id: completely unconscious, striving to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives, operating on a pleasure principle and demanding immediate gratification: ego: largely conscious, mediating the conflicting demands of the id, the superego and reality. It operates on a reality principle: superego: partly conscious, partly unconscious that strives to live up to our internalized ideals and desires to follow the rules and restrictions society places on us. If the psychosexual stages are completed successfully, the result is a healthy personality. Immature defenses: distort reality the most and lead to the most ineffective behaviour (projection, regression, displacement)
