PSYCH-220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 32: Personality Test, Projective Test, Reagent
9 Oct 2020
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Performance-based tests: use an unstructured format in which participants must respond to a stimulus in as much detail as they would like, often with certain parameters set by the researcher. Self-report personality tests may be dichotomous two-choice scale (ex. True or false, yes or no) or a likert-type rating scale. Formats include checklists, forced-choice scales, and visual analogue scales. Forced-choice format: present respondents with a limited number of choices rather than a rating scale. True-false or choice of two statements to pick which best. Rorschach inkblot test, thematic apperception test, these are most often used in clinical and forensic setting. Validity of many performance-based tests is highly controversial. 5 categories of projective techniques: association technique (ex. Word association, rorschach inkblot: construction techniques: ex. Sentence-completion tests: arrangement or selection of stimuli: ex. Pick your fav color, pic, or other stimuli: expression techniques: ex.
