PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Rorschach Test, Projective Test, Thematic Apperception Test

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Joordens, Steve

Document Summary

Personality: is an individual"s characteristic style of behaving, thinking, and feeling. Prior events that can shape an individual"s personality. Anticipated events that might motivate the person to reveal particular personality characteristics. Personality psychologists study questions of how our personalities are determined by the forces in our minds and in our personal history of heredity and environment and by the choices we make and the goals we seek. 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. Actuarial method can be used to gauge personality even when the self-report items are not clearly related in content to the characteristic being measured. Projective techniques: a standard series of ambiguous stimuli designed to elicit unique responses that reveal inner aspects of an individual"s personality.