PSYC 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 42: Microsoft Onenote, Narcissism, Positive Psychology
10 Dec 2015
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Trait: characteristic pattern of behaviour or a disposition to feel and act, as assessed by self-report inventories and peer reports. Hans & sybil eysenck: described personality variation using introversion/extraversion and stability/instability. Personality inventory: a questionnaire (often with true/false or agree/disagree) on which people respond to items designed to gauge a wide range of feelings and behaviours used to assess selected personality traits. Minnesota multiphasic personality inventory (mmpi): originally developed to identify emotional disorders, this test is used for many screening purposes. Most widely researched and clinically used of all personality tests. Empirically derived test: a test developed by testing a pool of items and then selecting those that discriminate between groups. Barnum effect: tendency to accept true types of information such as character assessments or horoscopes, even when the information is so vague as to be worthless. The big five personality factors: makes the acronym "canoe"
