PSYC 102 Lecture Notes - Thematic Apperception Test, Anal Retentiveness, Likert Scale
1 Mar 2013
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The particular combination of emotional, attitudinal, and behavioral response patterns of an individual. Those biologically and environmentally determined characteristics within the person that account for distinctive and relatively enduring patterns of thinking, feeling and acting. Variety of characteristics, usually defined by others differ aspects of an individual, relatively, long lasting. Personality inventories where we simultaneously assess multiple dimensions of personality. Mmpi clinical scales: developed in 1940s, 550 statements, empirical construction. Schizophrenia (bizarre thoughts: determining people if they were honest or not. Factor analysis: 187 items, 16 bipolar traits, trying to find interrelated variables for the structure and the underlying nature of personality. How much do people think they can control the outcomes. Negative: prone to deliberate deception, social desirability, response sets. Use forced choice to decrease social desirability. Used reversed items to identify response set. Projective tests: present ambiguous stimuli and interpret subjects responses, thematic apperception test (tat) Lack of face validity decreases chance of deliberate deception.
