PSYC 3250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: California Psychological Inventory, Extraversion And Introversion, Conscientiousness

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3250
• Professor: Grace Ewles

Document Summary

Involves the administration, scoring, and interpretation of empirically supported measures (ex. not buzzfeed quizzes) of personality traits and styles, in order to: refine clinical diagnoses, structure and inform psychological interventions. Increase the accuracy of behavioural prediction in a variety of contexts and settings. Early 1900s first attempts to measure personality. Involved writing items reflecting his theories about personality and then organizing them into a test of personality. Ww1 develop(cid:373)e(cid:374)t of the (cid:858)perso(cid:374)al data sheet(cid:859: us military wanted to filter out individuals who would not be able to deal with the stress of war this measure was created to do this. Objective highly structured, clear, unambiguous test items (yes/no answers, likert scale) that are objectively scored. Early objective measures (first two both still used today: california psychological inventory (cpi) Designed to measure attributes of personality involved in interpersonal behaviour and social interactions. Ca(cid:374) (cid:272)o(cid:373)pare perso(cid:374)(cid:859)s profile to gender-specific norms and combined sex norms.