PSY3041 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: David Rapaport, Extraversion And Introversion, Response Bias

• School: Monash University
• Department: Health Sciences - Psychology
• Course: PSY3041
• Professor: jake hoskin

Document Summary

Personality characteristics: non-intellective aspects of human behaviour, typically distinguished from mental abilities. To meet this need, they used self report questionnaires that provided a list of statements and required subjects to respond in some way to each, such as marking true or false to indicate whether the statement applied to them. If a pe(cid:396)so(cid:374) (cid:373)a(cid:396)ks t(cid:396)ue fo(cid:396) (cid:858)i a(cid:373) out goi(cid:374)g(cid:859), the test will assume that: theoretical strategy, begins with a theory about the nature of the particular characteristic to be measured. If the theory hypothesizes that personality can be broken down into six major areas, then developers strive to create items that tap each of these six areas. This correlation means that the two overlap in what they measure: share common variance. The other two scales suspicion and defensiveness may correlate not only with each other but also with the hostility and aggression scales.