PSY 0010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Toilet Training, Hazel Rose Markus, Prefrontal Cortex
9 Nov 2017
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Personality: what it is and how it is measured. Personality: an individual"s characteristic style of behaving, thinking, and feeling: study developing explanations of the basis for psychological di erences among people, explanations of personality di erences are concerned with prior events and anticipated events that a ect personality. Actuarial method: predict membership in a certain group base on mmpi performance, ex. Felons take mmpi, & score a certain way. Kids in juvie take smartest & score the same. Using results, adults gure they should step in to prevent the progression of these personalities to then try to prevent them heading down the same path as the felons. Projective techniques: a standard series of ambiguous stimuli designed to elicit unique responses that reveal inner aspects of an individual"s personality: open to subjective interpretation. Objective measures: electronically activated recorder (ear) A rhythm detected of mood found at times throughout the day.
