PSYC 2130 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Consistency, Rorschach Test, Apperception
21 May 2014
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Chapter 5 personality assessment i: personality testing and its. The nature of personality assessment: any characteristic pattern of behavior, thought, or emotional experience that exhibits relative consistency across time and situations is part of an individual"s personality. These patterns include personality traits as well as psychological attributes such as goals, moods, and strategies: personality assessment is a frequent activity of industrial and clinical psychologists and researchers. Everybody also assesses the personalities of the people they know in daily life. The business of testing: personality testing is a big business that can have important consequences. 2: objective tests can be constructed by rational, factor analytic, or empirical methods; the state of the art is to combine all three models. Purposes of personality testing: some people are uncomfortable with the practice of personality assessment because they see it as an unfair invasion of privacy.
