PSYC 2030 Lecture Notes - Hermann Rorschach, Social Desirability Bias, Content Validity
6 Jan 2014
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Researcher asks subject to tell you something about themselves. Interviews: dealing with other humans socially all the time, primary method of acquiring knowledge about someone. How do you feel about something forced choice questionnaires: many clinical tests are of this nature rating scale, for self-report: there is a basic assumption that subjects are going to tell truth. No: must always keep in mind , validity. Can we trust what people say about themselves: memory distortions, lack of knowledge. Most of our experience is subconscious: rorschach inkblot tests capitalize on this, projection, guided by : (when faces with ambiguity) Individual will impose meaning and structure (individuals don"t like a lack of structure) Individual does so in an idiosyncratic matter which reflects important underlying processes relevant to personality. (everyone will view it differently. ) unreliable because it relies on the clinicians interpretation. Hermann rorschach (1921) nickname : bloto: relationship between perception and personality. Testing the limits: very unstructured way of doing the test.
