PSYB30H3 Lecture 4: Personality Chapter 4
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Personality assessment the measure of individual characteristics of a personality assessment comes in person, often through personality tests, interviews, and other measures. Though there are many types of methods that researchers use to study personality, the most commonly used are personality tests. Many uses of personality assessment beyond the laboratory. Psychologists may gather and evaluate information about a person from various sources including personality tests, interviews, biographical material, and other people for hiring, job placement, diagnosis, or development of a case study. In clinical settings, personality assessment may be used to develop models of disorders, design interventional programs, monitor treatments, evaluate treatments, and to make diagnoses. Table 4. 1 the description in this table may be an accurate description of your personality but it is to many people. The trouble is, it is so general that it accurately describes nearly everybody! The fact that people readily believe such feedback is called the barnum effect.
