PSYC37H3 Chapter 10: Chapter 10
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Chapter 10: applications in clinical and counseling settings. California psychological inventory (cpi): widely used tool in career assessment. People have developed tests to help solve problems that face modern society. Personality: relatively stable distinctive patterns of behavior that characterize individual and their reaction to environment. Structured personality tests evaluate personality traits, personality types and personality states. Personality traits: relatively enduring dispositions- tendencies to think, act or feel in certain manner in any given circumstance that distinguish one person from another. Personality states: emotional reactions that vary from one situation to another. Self concept: person"s self definition (or according to rogers: organized, relatively consistent set of assumptions a person has about themselves) Psychologists needed a measure of emotional functioning so they could evaluate large number of people and screen out those who were unfit for military service. Used self- report questionnaires: list of statements and required subjects to respond t/f.
