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What
do personality tests measure?
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Personality
- traits
- Motivation
- Personal
- adjustment
- Psychiatric
- symptomotology
- Social
- skills
- Attitudes
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What
are the two fundamental components of personality assessment?
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Each
- person is consistent to some extent
- Each
- person is distinctive to some extent
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What
type of validity is most important for personality tests?
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Construct
validity, due to lots of error
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What
are the major tenants of Psychoanalytic Theory?
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Role
- of unconscious
- Vailant’s
- hierarchy of ego adaptive mechanism
- Projective
- techniques
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What
are the major tenants of Type Theories?
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Sorts
individuals into distinct types or categories
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What
is the “Type A” personality? What test was designed to assess Type A?
- Type
- A: coronary-prone behavior pattern (friedman/roseman)
- Type
- B: easy going, relaxed lifestyle
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What
are the major tenants of Phenomenological Theories?
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Emphasize
the importance of self, (Rogers)
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What
is the Q-sort? What theory is it based on? How does it work?
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Stack
- of cares with statements about self, 9 piles with restrictive rules.
- Should come out balanced (statements: most/least like me)
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Whatare the major tenants of Behavioral & Social Learning Theories?
- View
- behavior as learned and as situation-specific
- We
- are our behaviors
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What
are the major tenants of Trait Theories? What tests were designed based on
different trait theories?
- Dfined
- personality with regard to traits or charateristics used to describe
- others in every day life. Ppl have a set of traits that causes them to be
- similar acaross situations.
- Tests:
- cattell: surface and source traits
- Eysenc:
- trait dimensional Theory
- Five-Factor
- Model
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What
is the five factor model? What are the five factors? What is the evidence
for the existence of these five factors?
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A
- dimensional representation of personality structure based on broad
- factors of personality.
- Neuroticism: (emotional/nervous
- v. unemotional/calm)
- Extraversion:
- Openness to experience. (curious/untradional v. conventional/narrow
- interests)
- Agreeableness
- (soft-hearted/helpful v. suspicious/ruthless)
- Consientiousness
- (organized/ambitious v. aimless/unrealiable)
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What
are the drawbacks of trait theories of personality?\
- Difficult
- to define/measure
- Do
- traits cause behavior or describe behavior
Traits have low predictive
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What
is a projective technique?
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Use
- ambiguous stimuli to elicit a response thought to reveal unconscious
- aspects of personality.
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How
many projective tests were among the top 15 most commonly used tests?
Where do they rank? (from the lecture)
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3.
- Sentence completion methods. 4.thematic apperception test. 5. Rorschach.
- 7. Projective drawings. 15.Children’s Apperception Test.
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What
are the four classifications of projective techniques & what are
examples of each?
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Association Techniques: associate
- word/picture to something. Ex. Rorschach inkblot test
- Completion Tech. used incomplete
- sentence stems. Ex. “my mother is a BLANK. Rotter incomplete sentences
- Blank.
- Construction Tech. Construct a
- story about something. Tematic Apperception Test
- Expression Tech. draw a picture,
- person, house-tree-person (HTP); Kinetic Family Drawings (KFD)
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What
is the Rorschach? How is it administered? How is it scored? What is the
reliability & validity? What are the criticisms?
- Inkblots, 10 cards. Scored by: location,
- determinant, content, popular v. Orginal. Reliability from 0.0-.83. Little
- predictive validity
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What
are incomplete sentence blank tests? How are they used? In general, what
are the psychometric properties of these tests?
- Rotter
- Incomplete Sentence Blanks (Risb)
- Sentence completion series, forer
- structured sentence completion tests, geriatric sentence completion form,
- Washington university sentence completion test.
- Good-split
- half reliability/ Interscorer R.,/ Most
- VAILD PROJECTIVE TEST USED TO ASS ADJUSTMENT. But not good enough
- validity to make decision on someone.
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What
is the TAT? What is the theory behind this test? How is it administered
& scored? What are the psychometric properties?
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Projective
- test
- A
- clinical tool to used to understand ones unconscious needs/conflicts
- through ambiguous pictures.
- No
- standard administration, subjects area sked to make up a story that
- includes whats happening in the pic ect..
- Theory:
- Murrays personality theo60ry of Needs and Press.
- Reliability
- and Validity POOR. R under .30
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What
are projective drawings? What are examples? How are they used? How are
they interpreted? What are the psychometric properties?
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Designed
- to assess intellectual maturity.
- House
- TREE Person, Family Kinetic Drawing ect.
- Graded
- by drawings
- Interpreted
- various ways
- Poor
- psychometrics
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With
limitations in reliability & validity, why are projective tests still
so often used?
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Illusory validation
- Used as a tools for additional resources during
- interview.
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