PSYCH 1101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Rorschach Test, Thematic Apperception Test, Extraversion And Introversion
29 Nov 2016
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Individual"s characteristic style of behaving, thinking, and feeling. Personality: what it is and how it is measured. Describing and explaining personality: describing various people: similar characteristics, individual: different, explanations for personality differences. Motivate person to reveal particular characteristics: personality inventories. Method in which people provide subjective information about their own thoughts, feelings, or behaviors. Assess personality and psychology problems: projective techniques. Tests designed to reveal inner aspects of individual"s personalities by analysis of responses to ambiguous stimuli. Inner thoughts and feelings revealed by analysis of response to unstructured inkblots. Motives, concerns, view of social world revealed through stories they make up about ambiguous pictures of people. Not reliable or valid in predicting behavior: newer measurement methods. Wireless communication, real-time computer analysis, automated behavior identification. Ear (electronically activated recorder): women and men were equally talkative. Traits as behavioral dispositions and motives: personality=combination of traits, trait. Relatively stable disposition to behave in a particular and consistent way.
