PSYC 2000 Study Guide - Final Guide: Neuroticism, Penis Envy, Hans Eysenck
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Relatively stable / enduring patterns of thoughts, feelings, actions. Every person gets same set of predetermined questions. Unstructured (good for therapist but not good for research ) Interviewer is free to ask different questions of each person: observation- needs to be methodical, objective tests- aka inventories; standardized questions, typically multiple- choice or true-false items, minnesota multiphasic personality inventory. Lie score- indicates you are lying in order to make yourself look good: validity score. Indicates a careless or random response pattern: correction score. Indicates the examinee is either trying to fake good or fake bad : empirical method of item inclusion- based on ability to differentiate between groups, not theory, projective tests. Ambiguous stimuli: rorschach inkblot test- 10 bilaterally symmetrical inkblots, scoring is very complex. Tat ambiguous pictures: asked to male up a story to explain the picture, same problems as rorschach. Trait- relatively stable/ consistent characteristic that can be used to described someone: early trait theorists, gordon allport a hierarchy.
