PSYA02H3 Chapter 11: Chapter 11 Development .docx

• School: UTSC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYA02H3
• Professor: Steve Joordens

Document Summary

Personality: is an individuals characteristic sytle of behaving thinking and feeling. Self report: a series of answers to a questionnaire that ask people to indicate the extent to which sets of statements or adjectives accurately describe their own behavior or mental state. Minnesota multiphasic personality inventory: well- researched clincal questionnaire used to assess personality and psychological problem. Projective techiques: a stand series of ambiguous stimuli designed to elicit unique responses that reveal inner aspects of an individuals personality. Rorschach inkblot test: a projective personality test in which individual interpretations of the meaning of a set of unstructured inkbots are analyzed to identify a respondents inner feelings and interpret his or her personality structure. Thematic apperception test (tat): projective personality test in which respondents reveal underlying motives concers and the way they see the social world through the stories they make up about ambiguous pictures of people.