PSY 0010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Toilet Training, Genital Stage, Latency Stage
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Personality: what it is and how it"s measured. Personality: an individual"s characteristic style of behaving, thinking, and feeling. Explanations of personality differences are concerned with prior events and anticipated events that affect personality. Anticipated events: own experiences, memories, thoughts, self-expression. Validity scales can help alleviate response style biases. Self-report: 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 behavior or mental state. Mmpi-2: a well-researched clinical questionnaire used to assess personality and psychological problems. Actuarial method: takes a group of people and compare their responses to another group that can be used as a prediction. Open to subjective tendencies, which is a draw-back. Projective techniques: a standard series of ambiguous stimuli designed to elicit unique responses that reveal inner aspects of an individual"s personality (still subjective) Thematic apperception test (tat)- given an image and you have to describe whats going on.
