PSYA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Rorschach Test, Thematic Apperception Test, Twin
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Personality is an individual"s characteristic style of behaving, thinking and feeling. Personality: what it is and how it is measured. Most personality psychologists focus on specific, psychologically meaningful individual differences. Explanations of personality differences are concerned with prior events that can shape and individual"s personality or anticipated events that might motivate the person to reveal particular personality characteristics. Anticipated events emphasizes person"s own perspective and often seems intimate and personal in its reflection of the person"s inner life, hopes, fears, aspirations. Self-report is a series of answers to questionnaire that asks people to indicate the extent to which sets of statements or adjectives accurately describe their own behaviour or mental state. Researcher combines answers to get general sense of individuals personality with respect to particular domain. Self report collects sets of self descriptive statements that indicate different degrees of personality characteristic. Uses multiple answers to a variety of items that are related in content to gauge the underlying personality characteristic.
