PSYC370 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Consistency, Content Validity, Trait Theory
11 Jan 2017
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Chapter 5: personality assessment ): personality testing and )t"s consequence. An individuals personality consists of characteristic patterns of behavior, thought, or emotional experience that exhibit relative consistency across time and situations: motives, intentions, goals, strategies. 2 criteria of personality tests: 1) agreement: does this judgment agree with other judgments obtained through other techniques or from other judges, 2) prediction: can this judgment of personality be used to predict. Mmpi clinical assessment of individuals with psychological difficulties, California psychological inventory use with nondisturbed individuals. Omnibus inventories designed to measure a wide range of personality. Some measure just 1 trait traits: s-data vs b-data personality tests. S-data: objective tests: tests ask you about what you are like, so the score you receive amounts to a summary of how you have described yourself. B-data tests: projective tests: projective tests. Projecting the mind personality (mmpi: answers to the items are informative about some aspect of.
