PSYCO105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Factor Analysis, Heritability, Behavioural Genetics
31 Oct 2016
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Personality refers to an individual"s characteristic style of behaving, thinking, and feeling. Self-report refers to a series of answers to a questionnaire that asks people to indicate the extent to which sets of statements or adjectives accurately describe their own behaviour or mental state. These can be scales, or true or false questions. The minnesota multi-phasic personality inventory (mmpi-2) assesses personality and psychological problems. Projection techniques: consist of a standard series of ambiguous stimuli designed to elicit unique responses that reveal inner aspects of an individual"s personality. Rorschach ink blot test: a projective personality test in which individual interpretations of the meaning of a set of unstructured ink blots are analyzed to identify a respondent"s inner feelings and interpret his or her personality structure. Thematic apperception test: a projective personality test in which respondents reveal underlying motives, concerns, and the way they see the social world through the stories they make up about ambiguous pictures of people.
