PSYCH356 Lecture Notes - Psychobiography, Sensitivity Training, Gestalt Psychology
19 Jun 2013
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Q-sort technique may be used for self-description, for describing how one would like to be or even to describe a relationship. It is also used to describe the characteristics associated with successful performance in a given task. It has been used to determine how similar or dissimilar person" descriptions are of themselves as they really view themselves as they would like to be. Semantic differential: is used to study what different stimuli, events or other experiences mean to the individual- that is their personal significance. Three main factors tend to emerge when the results are analyzed: primary one evaluative factor (good-bad, potency: eg. hard, soft, masculine, etc, activity: eg. passive, excitable, calm, etc. When the verbal content was +ve, more frequent eye contact on the part of the interviewer produced more +ve evaluations of the interviewer. In contrast, when the verbal content was ve, more frequent eye contact produced more ve evaluation.
