PSYC 2130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Sigmund Exner, Intelligence Quotient, Hermann Rorschach
9 May 2013
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Ask if she will post notes online http://wwnorton. com/college/psych/personalitypuzzle6/ Thursday may 9th 2013: personality assessment, theoretical importance: theories are as good as our ability. The usefulness of any personality theory would be limited if there were no way of measuring it (one of the biggest criticisms of freud): practical importance: they are okay predictors of your skill sets, and jobs. Rigid, hostile, tangential, personalities are hard to do talk therapy with: there is no routine personality assessment. What determines which test you give your patient depends on your theoretical background; a freudian will give you rorschach tests, but not others: clinical interview, the first step when you see a patient. Composed of asking questions: you get a sense of their state, ervin silverman study - psychiatric hospital in florida. He measured the amount of time that elapsed with the first attending physician. How much time expires before that physician puts on the chart a tentative diagnoses.
