PSYC 102 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Rorschach Test, Thematic Apperception Test, Projective Test

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An individual"s characteristic style of behaving, thinking and feeling. Anticipated events: events that might motivate people to reveal certain personality traits. **personality is composed on an interaction between these two features** A method in which people provide subjective information about their own thoughts, feelings or behaviours, typically via questionnaire or interview. Tests designed to reveal inner aspects of individual personalities by analysis of their responses to a standard series of ambiguous stimuli: participants don"t know what they are being tested on. A projective technique in which respondents" inner thoughts and feelings are believed to be replaced by analysis of their responses to a set of unstructured inkblots. A projective technique in which respondents are asked to make up stories based on ambiguous pictures. Interpretation of the results can contain lots of bias. a relatively stable disposition to behave in a particular way. The tendency towards political conservatism, obedience to authority and conformity.