PSY 0010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Rorschach Test, Hans Eysenck, Projective Test
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Section 1 personality: what is it and how it is measured. Personality: an individual"s characteristic style of behaving, thinking, and feeling. Personality is in the eye of the beholder. Explanations of personality differences are concerned with: 1. Prior events that can shape an individual"s personality. Emphasizes the person"s own, subjective perspective and often seems intimate and personal in its reflection of the person"s inner life (hopes, fears, and aspirations) Studying genes, brains, and other aspects of our biological makeup: 2. Anticipated events that might motivate the person to reveal particular personality characteristics. Measuring personality: the measures can be classified broadly into personality inventories and projective techniques. Mmpi-2-rf (reconstructed form) consists of 338 self-descriptive statements to which the respondent answers, true, false , or cannot say . Measures a wide range of psychological constructs. Includes validity scales that assess a person"s attitudes toward test taking and any tendency to try to distort the results by faking answers: limitations of personality inventories.
