PSYC 2130 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Extraversion And Introversion, Canoe.Com, Factor Analysis
21 Nov 2016
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Personality assessment i: personality testing and its consequences. For personality traits to be useful for the scientific understanding of the mind the essential task is measurement. An individuals personality consists of characteristic patterns of behavior, thought or emotional experience that exhibit relative consistency across time and situations attempt to measure them entails personality assessment. These patterns include motives, intentions, goals, strategies, and subjective representations. These variables and others are stable attributes of psychological makeup of individuals; any. Personality assessment is not restricted to psychologists practiced by you, friends and. Personality traits are part of how we think about each other and ourselves. The most important thing to know about a personality assessment is the degree to which it family is right or wrong. Evaluations of professional personality judgments are said to assess their validity; evaluations of amateur judgments generally use the term accuracy.
