PSYC 2600 Lecture : Personality Psychology Class 2.odt
5 Mar 2012
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Information provided by a person such as through a survey or interview. Information provided by someone else about another person. Information provided by standardized tests or testing situation. Strengths: not hampered by biases of human observer or may be used in naturalistic settings: mechanical recording device (actometer used to assess children"s activity, disadvantage: few personality dispositions lend themselves to mechancial assessment. Projective techniques: functional magnetic resonance imaging (fmri): used to identify the areas of the brain that. Light up" when performing certain tasks such as verbal problems or spatial navigation problems. Strengths: may provide useful means for gathering information about wishes, desires, fantasies that a person is not aware of and could not report: disadvantages: difficult to score, uncertain validity, and reliability. Limitations -record may be partial, difficult to obtain. Issues in personality assessment: links among different data sources. Results that replicate through triangulation are most powerful.
