PSYB30H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: California Psychological Inventory, Likert Scale, Personality Test
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Chapter 2: personality assessment, measurement, and research design (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Info a person verbally reveals about themselves, often based on a questionnaire or interview, and sometimes periodic reports by a person to record the events as they happen. Can take a variety of forms: unstructured personality tests (open-ended e. g. fill in the blanks) Blank piece of paper except the words i am . The participants are asked to complete these repeated 20 times statements. Test was published by sociologist, manford kuhn and thomas mcpartland. Thought that order of each response was imp something mentioned earlier might be more imp to the self-definition than something mentioned later. Observed an intelligence bias in the 1970s. Ppl with low verbal ability were not able to complete the test quickly or as thoroughly. The intelligence bias was eliminated if people were given enough time to complete the 20 questions.
