PSYO 121 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Rorschach Test, Projective Test, Apperception

• School: UBC Okanagan, UBC OK
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYO 121
• Professor: Derrick Wirtz

Document Summary

Personality: an individual"s characteristic style of behaving, thinking and feeling. Self-report: a method in which a person provides subjective information about their own thoughts, feelings, or behaviours, typically via questionnaire or interview. Mmpi: minnesota multiphasic personality inventory: a well researched, clinical questionnaire used to assess personality and psychological problems: current version mmpi-2-rf. Mmpi-2-rf: measures a wide range of psychological constructs: clinical problems, somatic problems, internalizing problems, externalizing problems, and interpersonal problems. Also includes validity scales that access a persons attitudes toward test taking and any tendency to try to distort the results by faking answers. Projective tests: tests designed to reveal inner aspects of individuals personalities by analysis of their responses to a standard series of ambiguous stimuli. Rorschach inkblot test: a projective technique in which respondents inner thoughts and feelings are believed to be revealed by analysis of their responses to a set of unstructured inkblots. Cries easily sensitive to feedback quick to anger.