PSY 0010 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Thematic Apperception Test, Learned Helplessness, Latency Stage
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Personality an individual"s characteristic style of behaving, thinking, and feeling: personality differences are concerned with . Anticipated events emphasizes the person"s own perspective; often seems intimate and personal in its reflection of the person"s inner life (hopes/fears/aspirations) Measuring personality: self-report a series of answers to a questionnaire that asks people to indicate the extent to which sets of statements or adjectives accurately describe their own behavior or mental state. Test developers assume people will project personality factors that are out of awareness. Rorschach inkblot test: individual interpretations of unstructured inkblots are analyzed to identify the respondent"s inner feelings and interpret his or her personality structure. Thematic apperception test (tat): respondents reveal underlying motives/concerns/view of social world through the stories they make up about ambiguous pictures of people. Projective tests are controversial because they are viewed as subjective and dependent on the interpretation of the examiner (source of bias).
